Seven hours after Guido debunked Repubblica’s conspiracy that Boris flew away to Perugia from 11^th to 14^th September, for some bizarre reason the BBC felt the need to lend weight to the conspiracy. In a badly misjudged attempt to get in on the action, the corporation sent correspondent Mark Lowen on a 230 mile round-trip from Rome to Perugia, where he confirmed what had been comprehensively debunked by multiple news outlets; that Boris did not secretly fly to the central Italian city – missing his son’s christening – only for his trip to be published in an Italian press release.

The weight of evidence against the conspiracy did not stop the BBC journo alighting on a blue tick Remainer pushing the idea that a private chartered jet from Farnborough to Italy on the 12^th could have contained the PM. Lowen eventually got confirmation that its single passenger was a private citizen and not the PM. Classic BBC…

UPDATE: Lowen isn’t even the first BBC reporter to visit the airport today…

I’m at Perugia airport.
Lady on the check in desk said Boris Johnson was definitely here last week- ‘it’s a small airport so you know when someone famous is here’ #Perugia pic.twitter.com/wgB6ldO8XW

— Anna T-B (@annamason9) September 21, 2020