During the Tory Party Conference in October Boris Johnson encountered his unauthorised biographer, Sonia Purnell. 'I spotted Boris at around midnight,' says Purnell, who used to work with him in the Daily Telegraph office in Brussels:
"He was talking to Nick Robinson of the BBC who ... discreetly stepped aside. Boris said, 'Have you written anything nice about me?' and I said there's lots of nice stuff. He said he had only seen the extracts in the papers and he said he must read it, he had only heard what some people had been saying about it. He then said he knew he should have bought me lunch, but I knew he never would. He only buys lunch when he really needs to get out of a hole and keep people onside"
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