article_snippet: While bidding is underway for one item, Boris Johnson is heard trying to persuade a guest, who is sitting on the table of Work and Pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith, to increase Boris Johnson bid.
article_snippet: ’, Boris Johnson says.
article_snippet: Boris Johnson’s not on benefits is Boris Johnson?
article_snippet: Well if Boris Johnson is then Boris Johnson can afford he is.
article_snippet: ’ Boris Johnson then goes lower, suggesting ‘£55,000?’
article_snippet: At another point in the auction, Boris Johnson comments on the expensive cars the guests are driving.
article_snippet: It’s quite naff to have Bentley’s and Rolls Royce and Ferraris because anybody could have Bentley’s and Rolls Royce and Ferraris’, Boris Johnson says.
article_snippet: And in a reference to the lifestyle of MPs before the 2009 expenses scandal, Boris Johnson said: ‘In the good old days of MP’s expenses we could have MP’s expenses too, but we don’t anymore’.
article_snippet: Boris Johnson comments will embarrass the party, after ministers have repeatedly said that the drive to cut welfare has meant ‘difficult decisions’.