Tim Walker

Mandrake

Johnson’s Office Job

Apparently seeing the £60 million personal fortune that Tony and Cherie Blair have amassed as a challenge, Carrie Johnson has ordered her husband, Boris, back into the office.

Instead of soaking up the sun beside the pool of their moated Oxfordshire mansion this summer, the former PM has been clocking in at Millbank Tower, the block overlooking the Thames that’s owned by his friends David and Simon Reuben – the billionaire property tycoons who donated £200,000 to the Conservatives during his leadership, and have more recently been swelling Reform UK’s coffers.

“Boris is coy about his clients and doesn’t of course have to declare them now that he no longer sits in Parliament, but it would appear they’re based overseas as he tends to show up for work late in the day and leave late at night which suggests he’s accommodating their time zones,” says an associate of the Vote Leave frontman. “He is one of the few in that building who show up for work in a suit and tie which certainly isn’t how voters generally remember him, but it’s obviously what his new paymasters require.”

It was disclosed that after Johnson had left Downing Street, a company ultimately owned by the Reubens had made office space worth £7,110 a month available to him, initially on a one-year basis. Companies House shows that the Office of Boris Johnson is officially based at an address in east London, where the only serving officer is listed as Dame Ann Sindall, Johnson’s longest-serving aide and gatekeeper who has worked closely with him since his days editing the Spectator.