BLACK DOG: Boris Johnson can plan to spend Christmas in style after Theresa May nominated him as sole key-holder of Brexiteer mansion
Boris Johnson can plan to spend Christmas in style after Theresa May yesterday finally got around to officially nominating him as sole key-holder of Chevening
Boris Johnson can plan to spend Christmas in style after Theresa May yesterday finally got around to officially nominating him as sole key-holder of Chevening, the Government grace-and-favour home in Kent.
As a sop to ‘below stairs’ fellow Brexit Ministers David Davis and Liam Fox, Bojo has agreed to give them ‘special dispensation’ to use it from time to time. Jolly decent of him.
A friend of Boris says it is not only his ill-disciplined use of the English language that needs toning down in Brexit talks with fellow EU foreign ministers: his body language is also a problem.
‘You can always tell when he is fibbing because he lowers his head, sinks his jaw into his neck, splays his stubby fingers out into the shape of a comb and pushes them slowly through his hair.’
Lie detector that's ringing alarm bells
Tory MP Rebecca Harris has invited her Commons colleagues to a demonstration this week of a new lie-detector machine amid suggestions the police should use them more.
But as one acerbic MP says: ‘I don’t think many of us will agree to be wired up to the machine and asked, “Have you ever fiddled your expenses?” ’
Having won his epic campaign to get Britain out of the EU, you’d think Nigel Farage would be relishing every day between now and the time that he and other British Euro MPs leave the European Parliament for the final time.
Not a bit of it. ‘It’s bloody awful,’ says Nige. ‘It feels like being on a Brussels version of death row.’ One or two in No 10 wish he was on the real thing…
Tory MP Rebecca Harris has invited her Commons colleagues to a demonstration this week of a new lie-detector machine
When Farage goads the ‘ghastly little apparatchiks’ in Downing Street who dismiss his links to Donald Trump, his mind is drifting back to a scene in an Italian restaurant in Ramsgate during last year’s General Election.
The Ukip leader was scoffing away when he spotted someone who is now part of Mrs May’s inner circle.
But when Farage bowled over to introduce himself, the adviser – helping the Tories in Thanet South – coldly rebuffed his overtures. Big mistake…
No10 snub for big Ben
If Ben Bradshaw didn’t know it before, he certainly does now – size matters in politics.
The former Labour Culture Secretary is fuming after turning up to a demonstration in Downing Street, only to be told his placard was too big.
‘Apparently under Theresa May’s reign, you can’t hold up anything bigger than an A4 sheet of paper outside No 10,’ he fumed. ‘In 20 years as an MP, I’ve never experienced anything like it.’
Veteran Leftie BBC presenter James Naughtie may have been consigned to the backwaters of book reviews by the Beeb, but you can’t keep an old dog down.
US author Jodi Picoult used a gushing interview with Naughtie on yesterday’s Radio 4 Today programme to suggest Donald Trump is the new Hitler.
Can you imagine the Beeb giving anyone a platform to call Jeremy Corbyn the new Stalin? Precisely.
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