The outgoing prime minister will not receive any official documents during his week in Greece, his spokesman said, hours after a senior Tory claimed he would “go through his red box”. Mr Johnson has been criticized for his second holiday in August, but the spokesman declined to say why he did not expect to leave office on September 5. Meanwhile, two large moving vans were parked outside No 10, prompting speculation that the Prime Minister will depart with a large amount of furniture from his lavishly renovated flat. He is allowed to take all the fittings he paid for himself – although many were originally funded by a wealthy Tory donor – raising questions about the famous £840-a-roll gold wallpaper. The spokesman was also unable to say whether Mr Johnson would return to Downing Street to live from next week, for the final fortnight of his prime ministership. The second celebration was revealed when the prime minister was seen with his wife Kari at a supermarket in Nea Makri, a town east of Athens. But former Northern Ireland minister Brandon Lewis has denied he has “thrown in the towel” by going abroad again, following an old spa break in Slovenia. “I can assure you it will continue to come through,” he told LBC Radio, adding: “Being out of the country doesn’t mean the prime minister stops working.” But Johnson’s spokesman revealed he would not be receiving red boxes, saying: “If there are urgent decisions to be made, of course he will.” “He is communicative, as you would expect, but he is on leave,” he added, pointing to “national security” as an area where he will “obviously be briefed.” Dominic Raab, the deputy prime minister, will deputize for any meetings but, the spokesman said, “as far as I know no such meetings are planned”. Labor accused Johnson of treating his final weeks in office as “one big party”, despite the looming emergency cost of living from skyrocketing fuel bills. No 10 rejected calls to bring together Tory leadership candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak to hammer out an aid package before the new prime minister takes over. Asked if Mr Johnson’s holiday could wait a few weeks, his spokesman said: “I can’t get into the timing decision, but he is off this week. He’ll be back this weekend.”
