WHO GAVE PRIME MINISTER HIS SUDDENLY-FAMOUS GRIMSBY TOWN BOBBLE HAT?

                                                                      

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IN the wake of widespread circulation of a photograph of Prime Minister Boris Johnson wearing a Grimsby Town FC bobble hat, a burning question has arisen?

Did he buy it online? Did he buy it in person from the Mariners' club shop at Blundell Park? Or was it a gift?

The PM is sufficiently fond of the hat to have taken it with him on holiday to Scotland.

With winds whipping off the Atlantic Ocean, it was one of his most important accessories - keeping his head warm and, as if it mattered to him, his hair unruffled.

"Bloomin' useful," was how he described it. "Very pleased I brought it with me."

But if a gift, who gave it to him?

Surely not his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, mother of their baby son Wilfred.

Was it someone on the fish market while he was campaigning in the run-up to last December's General Election?

Was it John Fenty, shareholder-in-chief and board member at town?

Cllr Fenty is also deputy leader of the Conservative-controlled North East Lincolnshire Council.

Was it Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers, a staunch ally of Boris and Blundell Park season ticket holder?

Or was it Grimsby MP Lia Nici - not known to be a football fan but understood to be the Prime Minister's favourite back-bench MP (not least because he thinks she looks like him!)

It won't be long before we find out the answer.

Fleet Street sleuths are already on to the case.

Once the parliamentary recess is over, the poser is also being lined up for the first session of Prime Minister's Questions.

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