Boris Johnson and the Bullingdon Club

It is an all-male dining club known for its posh, super-rich members and their notoriously bad behaviour, including trashing restaurants and student rooms.

Other former members include former PM David Cameron and former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.

News media have been prevented from publishing photographs of Boris Johnson and David Cameron with fellow members in their reportedly £3,500 uniforms of blue ties, tails and biscuit-coloured waistcoats.

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In 2019 a photo which showed both men was recreated by homeless people for an exhibition at Old Fire Station in Oxford. (The Bullingdon Club with Demelza, Gavin, Jodie, Ann, Anthony, Howie, Mark, Doug, Ryszard and Rowan. Picture: Rory Carnegie)

Oxford artist Rona also created an oil painting of the withdrawn photograph.

In 2004 the BBC reported that a group of students smashed 17 bottles of wine, every piece of crockery and a window at the 15th Century White Hart pub in Fyfield, near Oxford.

Landlord Ian Rogers said the ringleader claimed to be from the Bullingdon Club.

Four of the group were arrested and fined £80.

Mr Rogers, then 42, said of the incident: "It was very peculiar. They were not rude or violent to my staff.

"Even when I pulled them off each other when they were fighting and chucking bottles at the walls, they would say 'Sorry old chap, just a bit of high spirits'."

In a 2013 documentary Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise, Mr Johnson confessed that he looked back on his Bullingdon days with a sense of “self-loathing” - although he admitted he kept up the tradition of still greeting members with a cry of “Buller Buller Buller”.

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Referring to one dinner, in which a restaurant was smashed up, he added: “The abiding memory is of deep, deep self-loathing.”

Many commentators have linked partygate and other scandals during Mr Johnson’s time in the public eye with his membership of the Bullingdon and its belief that the rules are not for our class.

In 2018, Bullingdon Club members were banned from holding positions in the Oxford University Conservative Association. The association’s president, Ben Etty, said the club’s “values and activities had no place in the modern Conservative party”.

Last year an Oxford University spokesperson said: “The Bullingdon Club has never been an official student society and the University has always regarded it as completely unacceptable.

“Even in the past, the club was irrelevant to normal student life at Oxford and the vast majority of today’s students will never even encounter it.”