10 Oct, 2021 @ 11:06
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Better luck this time: Boris Johnson hoping holiday in Spain’s Marbella isn’t as disastrous as previous vacations

Carrie And Boris Johnson Andy Parsonsno 10

BORIS Johnson is resting after the Conservative party conference on a sunshine break in Marbella with pregnant wife Carrie and their 17-month-old son, Wilf.

With the Commons still in recess for another week, the Prime Minister has taken the opportunity for a holiday in a private villa on the Costa del Sol.

He will be hoping – despite the ‘fuel crisis’ back in the UK – that he has better luck on this holiday than he has had on previous ones.

Carrie And Boris Johnson Andy Parsonsno 10
Boris and Carrie Johnson pictured earlier this year. Credit: Andy Parsons/Number 10

Johnson’s summer break in the UK’s West Country lasted a day before the government was overwhelmed by the Afghanistan withdrawal crisis. He was spotted at Taunton railway station dashing back to London as the Taliban took control of Kabul.

His last foreign holiday was on the Caribbean Island of Mustique in January 2020. That trip drew flak and  led to a  Commons standards investigation.

Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross had donated the use of a house as part of the £15,000 (€17,600) trip. The parliamentary watchdogs decided that the arrangements had been ‘ad hoc and informal and do not appear to have been fully explained to Mr Johnson at the outset’. 

The previous summer a camping trip to the Scottish Highlands had to be curtailed for security reasons after his location was exposed by a national newspaper. 

He also had to be rescued by his security detail when he was in danger of being swept out to sea while attempting to paddleboard.

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Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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