PM Boris Johnson’s upper-crust classmates paid him a pound to check their maths homework, it has been claimed.
BoJo is said to have hit upon the scheme at Eton, Britain’s poshest private school, 40 years before he became PM.
It will be seen as a grim irony by the Tory’s critics, who say his sums over Brexit simply do not add up.
It also throws new light on his dismissal of former Prime Minister David Cameron as a “girly swot” in leaked documents.
A source, who said the homework ploy saved Johnson from bullying at Eton, as well as raising cash, explained: “His classmates would all put their homework along the canteen table.
“Boris would go through all the booklets and correct everyone’s homework for a pound. Everybody assumes just because you went to an exclusive boarding school you’re rich.
"Boris’s family weren’t the most well off there by any means.”
The future Prime Minister won his place at Eton with an academically prestigious King’s Scholarship.
He was two years above David Cameron and a close friend of Viscount Althorp, now Earl Spencer, brother of Princess Diana.
He also studied with Darius Guppy, later jailed for five years for fraud, and started calling himself Boris instead of the previous Al – his full name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
He was described as “brilliant” by former teachers.
A report from his house master to father Stanley said: “I think he honestly believes it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception – one who should be free of the network of obligations which binds everyone else.
“Boris is pretty impressive when success can be achieved by pure intelligence, unaccompanied by hard work.”
Ken Livingstone, his 2008 rival for the London mayoralty, wrote an attack on private education while Johnson was at Eton and his reply in the school newspaper dismissed the left-winger’s views as “twaddle, utter bunkum, balderdash, tommyrot, piffle and fiddlesticks”.
Mr Cameron last week admitted that he smoked cannabis while at Eton.
