Wagging Rishi Sunak bounds in like a Blue Peter labrador: HENRY DEEDES watches as the Chancellor revels in his tricky role By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 23:34 BST, 22 June 2021 | Updated: 23:47 BST, 22 June 2021 Boris Johnson’s hairdresser. Meghan Markle’s press secretary. Sir Philip Green’s aerobics instructor. There are … Read more
A decent minister, yes, but Liz Truss is as wooden as one of Bjorn Borg’s rackets: HENRY DEEDES sees the International Trade Secretary deliver a statement on deal with Australia By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 23:27 BST, 17 June 2021 | Updated: 23:30 BST, 17 June 2021 As any sportsman will tell … Read more
Penny Mordaunt gave Angela Rayner a frightful biffing in the Commons yesterday. Surprising, I know! If these two were to ever square up to each other, most money would be on bovver- booted Rayner. Back in her youth, I doubt many dared pick a fight with our Ange in the playground. Yet when the pair … Read more
HENRY DEEDES: Raab talking to the IDC about the DCO and NGOs? It’s a bit light on the LOLs By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 22 April 2021 | Updated: 22:05 BST, 22 April 2021 Bamboozled by Line Of Duty? All that AFO, ARU and UCO gobbledegook? Try sitting thought the … Read more
Put away your worry beads, people. Keep cool, stay calm, no need to panic! Boris Johnson was in Red Adair mode at yesterday’s Downing Street briefing, dampening flames and putting out fires caused by the latest hullaballoo over the vaccine roll out. These stories about the AstraZeneca jab causing people to conk out due to … Read more
Fancy rockets, gleaming frigates, state-of-the-art new gear – usually when the Prime Minister discusses military matters, his speeches hum with the excitable rat-a-tat of gunfire and climax with a loud ‘kaboom’! Boris Johnson’s Integrated Review of defence and foreign policy yesterday, though, was a disappointingly soggy biscuit. Damper than an otter’s pocket. Plenty about increasing … Read more
Treble espressos all round, Giovanni! And while you’re at it, best poke a couple of matchsticks under our eyelids lest we find ourselves toppling into a deep and rigid coma. Sir Keir Starmer launched Labour’s local elections campaign yesterday morning and, ye gods, it was a force-five, chateau-bottled boreathon. To think I could been watching … Read more
To paraphrase an old joke: An Etonian, a Harrovian and a Wykehamist and are sitting in a bar when a woman walks in. The Etonian says: ‘Fetch her a chair.’ The Harrovian fetches it. The Wykehamist sits in it. Winchester alumnus Rishi Sunak didn’t pull off quite such a dastardly move yesterday. No. He was … Read more
As acts of revenge go, it was sleep with the fishes, severed horse head in the bed stuff. A Sicilian double-tap to the temple. Godfather author Mario Puzo would have struggled to concoct anything quite so vicious. Alex Salmond’s long-awaited appearance in front of the Scottish parliament’s harassment committee was savage, with no holds barred. … Read more
It’s hard to look at Gavin Williamson without seeing him wearing dunce’s hat: HENRY DEEDES watches the Education Secretary’s statement in Parliament By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:06 GMT, 25 February 2021 | Updated: 22:12 GMT, 25 February 2021 Just as confidence in the Government is returning to vaguely respectable levels, enter … Read more