When Boris Johnson’s Bullingdon drinking club targeted a student politician at Oxford for a ‘debagging’, the London Major could never have foreseen that three decades later the victim would become his arch-foe in the EU referendum.
The plot to remove the trousers of Roland Rudd – now a leading campaigner for an ‘In’ vote in June – has come back to haunt the MP, after it emerged that he broke a promise to resign from the Bullingdon over the incident in 1985.
Mr Rudd, then president of the Oxford Union debating club, had caught the eye of the mainly Tory-leaning ‘Bullers’ by being a supporter of the centrist SDP.
Roland Rudd, pictured centre, was the target of a prank by Boris Johnson's Bullingdon drinking club when both were at Oxford in their university days
Boris, pictured centre at Oxford, is said to have been forgiven by Mr Rudd over the 'debagging plot'
A confidant of Mr Rudd said: ‘They came to Roland’s house to do the deed, but he managed to give them the slip.
'Roland was never a fan of the Bullingdon and neither were they of him. Boris didn’t take part, but he said he would resign. He never did.’
The confidant added that Mr Johnson, a student friend of Mr Rudd, had proved to be equally unreliable over the referendum, as many members of the ‘In’ campaign had been led to believe that he would back them. But he has since come out for the opposing side.
Neither party commented last night, but a friend of Mr Rudd said: ‘He has forgiven Boris for going back on his word over the debagging plot, but he will find it harder to forgive him for his Brexit U-turn.’
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