Belated news reaches Boriswatch (via good egg Simon Fairthorne) that Boris was once assaulted with a bun. Yes, readers, it’s hard to believe, but bun-thrower Eleanor Hards chucked the missile at Boris during a dinner in 2002, and was swiftly reprimanded like the naughty woman she is. Here’s the lowdown from the Henley-on-Thames archive.
Boris describes this event at some length in a chapter of his book about the Henley campaign. From memory the book is called ‘Friends, voters, countrymen’ and the chapter is called ‘Who flung bun?’