Boris Johnson extorted some \u00a390m for extra policing in London from George Osborne in returning for not causing mischief in his Daily Telegraph <\/em>column during the Tory conference, it has been alleged.<\/p>\n

Osborne, whose speech at the event coincided with Johnson’s column, is said to have called the London mayor three days before the conference in the autumn of 2011, telling him: \u201cWe just want a quiet conference. Nothing unexpected<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson apparently replied: \u201cHmm, funny you should say that. I\u2019m just about to write my column for the Telegraph<\/em> and I\u2019m staring at a blank page.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The London mayor reportedly inquired what Osborne’s price would be to guarantee no mischief on the day of the speech, Johnson having demanded a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon \u2013 which changed voting rules in the EU and strengthened the European Parliament \u2013 at the Conservative conference two years prior.<\/p>\n

Johnson allegedly then asked for \u00a390m for extra policing in London, and by the time the phone call ended a package worth \u00a393m had been agreed, which would prove useful to Johnson when he ran for another term as mayor in 2012.<\/p>\n

The London mayor is then said to have joked: \u201cThat was the best-paid column ever<\/span>.\u201c<\/p>\n

Michael Ashcroft, the Tory peer currently promoting a biography of prime minister David Cameron, made these claims in the third day of Call Me Dave’s <\/em>serialisation<\/a> in the Daily Mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Written in partnership with former Sunday Times<\/em> hack Isabel Oakeshott, the biography has already alleged that prime minister David Cameron once put his penis into a dead pig’s mouth<\/a> as part of an Oxford society initiation ritual.<\/p>\n

Image Credit \u2013 Boris Johnson at hospital demo, March 2006 by John Hemming<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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