No matter how much you loved Boris you would find it maddening if he spilled red wine on your sofa. And more so if he didn’t even make a gestural effort to clear it up.
But, like us all, Boris would have known from experience of the futility of trying to get red wine stains out of ‘soft furnishings ‘
We’ve all seen fellow party guests being humiliated after such spillages as bossy people set to with theatrical paper towel mopping or the pantomime of pouring white wine or whole packets of sea salt onto the stains.
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