Disgraced ex-PM Boris Johnson has dressed up as Father Christmas for his household’s festive card this 12 months.
He may be seen sporting a crimson hat, crimson go well with and white beard as he stands on a ladder, able to put the star on the highest of a Christmas tree. His son Wilf – additionally sporting a crimson Santa hat – is perched a couple of steps beneath him taking a look at his dad.
The Partygate PM, who was final week grilled on his choices throughout the pandemic on the Covid Inquiry, seems on the digital camera along with his thumb up by the crimson, gold and Union Jack-decorated baubles on the tree.
But Mr Johnson has been beforehand branded a “Grinch” after he cancelled Christmas on the final minute in December 2020. The ex-PM delayed taking motion and plunged the UK into extreme restrictions days earlier than Christmas.
The former Tory chief and his spouse Carrie moved to Oxfordshire earlier this 12 months. The couple – who welcomed their third youngster in the summertime, son Frank – have a £3.8million property with 9 bedrooms set in almost 5 acres and boasting a walled backyard, a moat and tennis courts.
Since quitting as an MP in June over a damning report into Partygate, Mr Johnson has landed a brand new job as a columnist for the Daily Mail, in addition to trousering hundreds of kilos from speeches. In October, he introduced he was additionally becoming a member of GB News the place he’ll share his “unvarnished views on all the things from Russia and China to the struggle in Ukraine“. The former Prime Minister stated he was becoming a member of the information channel and will probably be offering “some great British television”.
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Mr Johnson was discovered to have dedicated a “clear and unambiguous” breach of guidelines by taking over the position writing a column for the Daily Mail. Former ministers should not permitted to take up or announce new appointments till the the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments has been capable of present recommendation – a course of Mr Johnson overtly flouted.
Mr Johnson’s downfall was fuelled by the Mirror exposing lockdown-busting events in No10 throughout the pandemic. Analysis this summer time confirmed Mr Johnson had raked in £21,800 per hour for profitable work exterior Parliament. The shamed ex-PM topped the checklist of MPs hoovering up money by means of second jobs on prime of their £86,584-a-year fundamental wage.