Carrie on scampering! Dilyn’s the star of No10 Christmas card – again
GAMBOLLING through the snow in the Downing Street garden – this is the image of Boris Johnson’s dog Dilyn which features on the Prime Minister’s Christmas card.
More than 7,000 of the cards, featuring the picture taken by No. 10 photographer Pippa Fowles, will be dispatched next week to world leaders, parliamentarians and individuals who played a key role in the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
It is the second year in a row that the Prime Minister and his wife, Carrie, have featured Dilyn: last year, the Jack Russell cross was pictured draped in tinsel outside No. 10.
Mr Johnson, 57, and Carrie, 33, adopted the two-year-old pet shortly after their arrival at Downing Street in 2019, rescuing him from a breeder in South Wales who was going to put him down because he had a misaligned jaw.
No.10 released the new picture after Mr Johnson insisted that there was no need to cancel Christmas gatherings, family meet-ups or Nativity plays over fears of the new Omicron variant.
He said: ‘There’s no need for that at all. That’s not what we are saying. Please, we’ve got to take a balanced and proportionate approach to this. We want people to continue as they are.’