Does this dinner show Dave and Boris are chums again?
THEY fell out spectacularly over Brexit. But David Cameron and Boris Johnson seem to have made up over dinner at a trendy New York restaurant.
The Foreign Secretary and the former prime minister were seen leaving the Red Rooster in Harlem together on Thursday night.
Joanna Geary, who works for Twitter, wrote on the social media site that she had spotted black SUVs outside the restaurant. She said: ‘As I passed, a number of people in suits left the restaurant and I instantly recognised the famous mop of hair belonging to Boris Johnson.’ She shook hands with the former mayor of London. Miss Geary added: ‘I hadn’t seen David until Boris said “I suspect you’ll recognise my friend David” and pointed in his direction.’
Mr Johnson is in New York for a United Nations summit on tackling Islamic State. And the former prime minister had given a speech on international relations to students at Brown University in Rhode Island on Monday.
It is understood Mr Cameron texted the Foreign Secretary after realising they were both in New York, and they arranged to meet up at ‘very short notice’. One image posted on Twitter last night showed Mr Johnson standing on a chair in the restaurant, but a source said he was just trying to ‘get out of a tight seating area’.
Relations between the pair, who were contemporaries at Eton and Oxford, broke down when Mr Johnson opted to lead the Leave campaign for Brexit.
This decision was seen as a crucial factor in deciding the outcome of the vote, which ultimately cost Mr Cameron his job. Such was his antipathy towards Mr Johnson and fellow leaver Michael Gove that Mr Cameron admitted to calling pheasants ‘Boris’ and ‘Michael’ when he was out shooting.
‘You’ll recognise my friend David’