'No disposable cups': Boris Johnson's aide confiscates his drink
by Martin Belam from on (#4RJXE)
PM's cup snatched away in what's speculated to be evidence of No 10's feuding tribes
It is a moment worthy of any episode of the political TV series The Thick Of It. As he walks through the Conservative party conference, Boris Johnson is handed a hot drink by one of his assistants. However, like his working parliamentary majority, the prime minister is able to hang on to it only momentarily before it is snatched away from him.
"No disposable cups," a second aide murmurs as she snatches Johnson's drink, seemingly worried about the implications of the Tory leader being pictured using a wasteful single-use cup. Johnson shakes his hands and mutters: "Oh. Oh. Oh" as the clip finishes.
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