From Bolsover, where Denis Skinner lost his seat, to Britannia Bay, where Johnson has reportedly arrived, on Mustique. From Johnson’s vacant holiday home, Chequers, to – if we must sacrifice his stylish alliteration for dull, topographical precision – Villa Oceanus, overlooking Britannia Bay, as above. One of her beach parties, Glenconner recalls, featured that most royal of contrivances, “a roll-top bath full of champagne”. “That night made Mustique famous for ever, mainly down to the golden boys dancing around Princess Margaret. An earlier Britannia visit had been commemorated by Tennant renaming, in the tradition of all thorough colonisers, the bay now welcoming Johnson.

Source: The Guardian December 28, 2019 18:00 UTC