21 March 2013
Joanna Lumley and Stanley Johnson were at Morton’s Club in Berkeley Square, home of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1820s.
They were celebrating the decision to take 1p off beer in the Budget by clinking champagne glasses to the tune of the Drinking Song in La Traviata. It was being performed by singers from the Grange Park Opera, with Lumley’s husband Stephen Barlow at the piano. What would they have done if Osborne had taken 2p off?
