Boris Johnson reveals he used to wander along Downing Street in boxer shorts hunting for takeaways
BORIS Johnson revealed as PM he used to wander along Downing Street in boxer shorts hunting for takeaways he ordered.
The former PM said he lost count of the huge number of food orders he and his wife Carrie never received.
Boris, 60, said:”I tell you one thing about living at Number 10 – it’s a nightmare if you want to order a takeaway.
“The number of evenings we would order some Chinese, or some Lebanese, or whatever and then the guy would say ‘I’m sorry, they’re not letting me in, they say I can’t come this way’.
“He’d say – ‘the police are telling me to go away’.”
Boris revealed that he would venture outside to try to rescue the takeaway which armed police were stopping from getting to his flat.
Speaking to the Rosebud podcast, he said: “”We would have to go round to number 70 Whitehall, which was the only place where they were allowed to make deliveries – a long way away from the Number 11 flat where we lived.
“And I would have to pad in my boxer shorts, or whatever I was wearing at the time, all the way through down to 70 Whitehall, and then try to persuade the guards at 70 Whitehall to let the kebabs through – by which time of course they’d have probably gone home again.
“I don’t know how many takeaway meals simply disappeared because of the difficulty penetrating the defences of Number 10.”
The full interview can be heard on the Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth podcast.