Toff luck, chaps: Bullingdon Club sent packing mid-photo

FOR more than two centuries, it has been one of the most exclusive clubs in the country, famed for wealthy members, boisterous rituals and grand banquets.

But the Bullingdon Club appears to have fallen out of favour, with reports of declining membership and a series of scandals.

Now, in the latest embarrassment, members have been booted out of an Oxford College as they attempted to recreate the notorious photograph of former luminaries in black tie attire on the steps of Christ Church.

Club members assembled on the college’s Canterbury Quad to stage a modern-day version of the iconic “Class of ’87” image, which featured former prime minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in their tails as they posed on the steps.

The newcomers were ordered to leave by college porters who said the group had not obtained permission to take the photograph.

The Dean of Christ Church, the Very Rev Prof Martyn Percy, said: “We don’t allow groups to use college buildings for self-promoting photography unless permission has been requested in advance.”

Prof Percy said that the club is banned from most colleges and that many restaurants refuse to take bookings from them.

“To the best of my knowledge, it is not an official club or society that has official recognition in the University of Oxford,” he said.

Last year, it was reported that the club was down to its last two members.