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But in the quarter-century since Ladbroke Grove, there has not been a fatality caused by SPAD.

Sad for the bear, but feeling that the police had the situation under control, Spad went back inside and then to bed.

"The spad sprang away from me and I left."

The prime minister is known to have been at at least two of these - the garden party and the spad's leaving do - and reports suggest he could have been at up to three more.

The special adviser — known as a “spad” in British government speak — said Johnson agreed.