BoJo: advised ‘don’t attend Square Mile Party’. Does.

“I have come under colossal pressure not to turn up here from the media who said it would be bad taste if I were to ignore the recession and attend your sumptuous celebrations. And how do you think I responded to that injunction? I thought about it – for all of a millisecond, which is now defined as the length of time an average person can watch a debate between the Milliband brothers. I deliberated for a Milliband… and I said, 'to hell with it, I’m coming!' I’m going to come to the Square Mile Masked Ball because I believe in financial services, and I believe in sticking up for all the vital industries of the City.”

The attendance of Brigitte Nielsen prompted speculation that she is to about to be drafted into the Ultimate Big Brother household. Or drop her toy boy lover and bag a banker. Or, indeed, a Mayor.