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Boris Johnson's Scotland holiday shown in pictures released by partner Carrie Symonds

Trip was cut short last week.  

Kate Devlin
Whitehall Editor
Monday 24 August 2020 04:15 EDT
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Boris Johnson forced to cut Scottish holiday short after newspaper images reveal location, reports suggest

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Boris Johnson’s holiday may have been cut short by security concerns but the prime minister did manage to enjoy the sunshine on his break, new pictures show.

The prime minister’s fiancée, Carrie Symonds, released photographs of their trip on Scotland’s west coast yesterday.

They show the Conservative leader carrying his young son Wilfred in a sling.

The couple posed with dog Dilyn and son Wilfred in the Scottish Highlands
The couple posed with dog Dilyn and son Wilfred in the Scottish Highlands (Carrie Symonds/Instagram)

Ms Symonds is also seen embracing the couple’s Jack Russell cross, Dilyn.

They had hired a house on Scotland’s Applecross peninsula for a week-long holiday.

But the trip was abandoned a day early after photographers uncovered the hideaway last week and snaps were printed on Thursday.

Ian Blackford, the Scottish National Party leader in Westminster and the local MP, has furiously denied allegations circulating in Westminster that he was the source of the leak.

Today he accused Downing Street of “classic deflection” over the claims.

He added: “It ill beholds number 10 to behave in this way”.

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