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In 1991, a 20-year-old Bernard Looney borrowed his brother’s Volkswagen Passat estate and drove from their home in southwest Ireland to Aberdeen for his first day of work as a BP engineer. He parked outside the Ardoe House hotel, where he was staying. “John Major was coming to visit and they told us to move our cars overnight,” Looney recalled. “I never got the message, or I didn’t follow the rules, and I woke up in the morning and there were four police standing around my car. An Irish registration, in Scotland, with John Major coming to visit . . .”