✻ Will Boris Johnson finally fall from office – thanks to the Case of the Three Sirloin Steaks at the Garrick Club?
As Stephen Glover wrote in his Oldie media column, he co-hosted a dinner at the Garrick for the Prime Minister and his old Telegraph colleagues last year. The Prime Minister’s three police bodyguards ‘wolfed sirloin steak at [Glover’s] expense’.
And now a retired police sergeant has written to Met Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick, before her resignation, asking for an explanation.
The retired sergeant said to her, ‘Thousands of public pounds have been wasted on non-existent police expenses, called “refreshers”, and I daresay that a Garrick sirloin steak with the trimmings and a drink goes well into £40 plus.’
The Commissioner’s office has passed on the letter to a Chief Superintendent in the Royalty and Specialist Protection squad.
There is no suggestion the bodyguards claimed expenses for the steaks. But surely someone should pay poor Stephen Glover back!
✻ ‘This boy is not suitable for university,’ declared the Dean of King’s College, Cambridge, after interviewing the.
