‘The great thing about being Mayor of London is you get to meet all sorts. It is my duty to stick up for every put-upon minority in the city – from the homeless to Irish travellers to ex-gang members to disgraced former MPs. After five years of slog, I have a fair idea where everyone is coming from.
But there is one minority that I still behold with a benign bewilderment, and that is the very, very rich. I mean people who have so much money they can fly by private jet, and who have gin palaces moored in Puerto Banus, and who give their kids McLaren supercars for their 18th birthdays and scour the pages of the FT’s “How to Spend It” magazine for jewel-encrusted Cartier collars for their dogs.’
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Here's Why Boris Johnson Does Know 'What It's Like To Be Stonkingly Rich'
‘Sonia Purnell, author of the biography “Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition”, told the Huffington Post UK: “Boris has always been fascinated by the super-wealthy, and has since he attended Eton enjoyed mixing with people much richer than he is, such as Earl Spencer, as well as the finer things in life.“His holidays – notably luxury safaris in India and Africa – are notoriously lavish. He has also consistently courted the super-rich as a politician over the years, some of whom have subsequently opened up their chequebooks and backed his electoral campaigns.”
Here’s just how “stonkingly rich” Boris Johnson could be…’
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