Former editor says Boris Johnson price journal £4,000 in parking fines

As a motoring correspondent Boris Johnson price his journal £4,000 in parking tickets, his former editor has stated.

Dylan Jones, who edited trend and way of life journal GQ for greater than twenty years till 2021, employed Mr Johnson to work on the Conde Nast title in Might 1999 over lunch at Le Caprice.

“There quickly seemed to be one thing of an issue, nonetheless, because the managing editor began to get despatched reasonably quite a lot of parking tickets,” Mr Jones wrote in The Sunday Occasions.

“And after I say lots, I imply lots; in Boris’s personal phrases, they began accumulating ‘like drifting snow on the windshield’.

Mr Jones added: “I as soon as labored out that, over the last decade he labored for GQ, Boris had price us about £4,000 in parking tickets.

“However then he’d additionally written greater than 100 extremely humorous motoring columns, so I figured it was price it.”

Mr Jones, who was appointed an OBE in 2013 for companies to the publishing and trend industries, stated “apparently” Mr Johnson by no means acquired any rushing tickets.

“And I’ve acquired a reasonably good concept why,” Mr Jones added.

“When the vehicles had been delivered to his home in Islington, the automotive firm at all times made a word of the mileage, one thing that’s normal observe. The mileage would even be famous after they got here to select them up once more. And on a couple of event — OK, on many, many, many events — the mileage was exactly the identical. So I depart you to attract your individual conclusions.”

The Prime Minister continues to be below scrutiny over the partygate affair, with former Conservative minister Steve Baker telling The Day by day Telegraph on Saturday the lockdown breaches in Downing Avenue may considerably damage the Tories on the native elections on Might 5.

However the PM has resolutely backed himself nonetheless to be in energy within the autumn.