David Cameron appears at meeting of Tory MPs in Parliament and can’t resist joke at Boris Johnson’s expense
Former PM was handed a biography of Churchill as a present but replied ‘I just hope it isn’t the Boris one’
DAVID Cameron appeared at a meeting of Tory MPs in Parliament last night where he joked about buying a shed and taking up smoking since leaving Number 10.
But the former Prime Minister couldn’t resist a joke at Boris Johnson’s expense as the guest of honour at the 1922 committee of backbenchers.
He was there to receive a gift of a signed first edition of Winston Churchill’s book on his early life as a leaving present.
But taking a swipe at his former rival Mr Johnson, who has written his own book about the wartime PM, he reportedly quipped: “I heard I was being presented with something on Churchill.
“I thought ‘Oh my God, I just hope it’s not the Boris book’.”
The Foreign Secretary wasn’t on hand to hear the gag however, after he turned up late for the early evening event.
Mr Cameron, who was given a rapturous reception with MPs banging the tables as he walked in, used a rare public appearance to make another joke – this time at his own expense.
After quitting politics following the EU referendum to write his memoirs that he has tried to be obscure since leaving Downing Street.
He told his former colleagues: “The only two things I’ve got headlines for were buying a shed and having a fag.
“Next time I’ll have the fag behind the shed.”
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It comes after he was revealed to have spent £25,000 on a bespoke “shepherd’s hut”, complete with wood-burning stove, sheep’s wool insulation and a pull-out bed.
And last month he was pictured at the Wilderness Festival near his old Oxfordshire constituency, white wine in one hand a cigarette in the other.
