Rachel Johnson lifts the lid on Boris's Brexit deliberations: tennis, frozen lasagne and Nigel Farage

This week Sarah Vine used her Daily Mail column to reveal the details of the roast lamb supper her husband Michael Gove used to plot a move to back Brexit with Boris Johnson. Now the Mayor of London’s sister Rachel Johnson has gone one better and lifted the lid on her brother’s subsequent Brexit deliberations.

Writing in the Mail on Sunday, Rachel says that it was not at the dinner, but on the Saturday after that Boris finally made up his mind to support the Leave camp. She says that last weekend she found her brother in turmoil in an Oxfordshire farmhouse — frying sausages and hammering at his laptop:

‘Last Saturday I drove through the sleet to an Oxfordshire farmhouse at the end of a lane to try to change the course of history. I was armed only with a frozen lasagne and a bag of lettuce. Boris was holed up on his own there almost incommunicado, hammering away at his hot laptop, frying sausages, while the world waited to see which way he would jump.’