Boris Johnson finds himself in a tight spot

Despite David Cameron’s best efforts to keep his party together during the course of the EU referendum campaign, his personal friendships with Brexiteers did suffer. However, while both Michael Gove and Boris Johnson found themselves left out in the cold by the former prime minister, the Foreign Secretary at least is making inroads once more.

After Johnson and Cameron buried the hatchet over whisky on a trip to Israel for Shimon Peres’s funeral, the pair have been snapped out on the town in New York. The duo enjoyed a night out at the Red Rooster restaurant. While the Financial Times reports that Johnson used the dinner to urge Cameron to consider Nato head candidacy, a Reuters correspondent suggests that it may have been more pleasure than business — reporting that the pair ‘stood up on the chairs several times and danced a little’.

Boris @BorisJohnson and @David_Cameron dine together and stand on chairs …