Hide and seek: Five politicians who have hidden – in fridges, toilets and behind trees

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Boris Johnson’s team categorically denies he was trying to hide in a fridge, but politicians do the strangest things when pursued by reporters and the public

While preparing to deliver milk in Leeds early on Wednesday morning, Boris Johnson was accused of – and filmed, unluckily – ducking questions from a Good Morning Britain reporter by hiding in a large fridge. As a plan, this has its limitations, but for sheer oddity, it deserves a place among the classic ad hoc press strategies of the 21st century. Here are the top five.

 

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You forgot to mench remainer sage Sir John Major. On Black Wednesday, 1992, Chancellor Norman Lamont was trying to find PM Major so he could authorise us getting out of the ERM to stop us haemorrhaging money. After one hell of a search, Lamont found him in the toilets apparently.

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