The flat at Number 11 Downing Street has seen extensive refurbishments in the past two decades before Carrie Symonds made her recent renovations, making further changes to those left by the Camerons. The ‘glum’ decor is said to have been removed in favour of vintage furniture restored by hand by Miss Symonds and the hall floors … Read more
Expectations have clearly risen since Margaret Thatcher slapped down a proposed refurbishment of the No 11 flat in 1979, saying the public would not be impressed. She dashed the hopes of her chancellor Geoffrey Howe, who had complained the 1960s-style kitchen was ‘positively antediluvian, with iron gas rings, antique sinks and sombre décor’, records show. … Read more
Downing Street ‘wants Holly Willoughby and Lorraine Kelly’ to front celebrity campaign to urge the public to take part in mass home testing drive alongside vaccines rollout PM planning blitz that will send home-swabbing kits to millions of homes NHS Test and Trace will dish out more than 400,000 lateral flow tests every day Willoughby … Read more
Downing Street denies Chris Whitty felt ‘very unhappy’ about plans for a ‘big bang’ reopening of schools on March 8 Downing Street knocked down claims Chris Whitty worried about a full return Boris Johnson made it clear he wants ten million schoolchildren back March 8 Education sources told The Guardian Mr Whitty was ‘very unhappy’ … Read more
Blimey, Del Boy Hancock has struck it lucky again. He’s scored a whole bunch of testing kits off some outfit called Surescreen. A sun lotion firm? Don’t be a plonker, Rodders. Nah, they’re a top-class healthcare firm in Derby. Cushty. And the Health Sec had only gone and scored 20million of the things. Lovely jubbly! … Read more
The seat of power! Boris Johnson super-fan turns her TOILET door into a perfect Downing Street replica – and invites PM to ‘rest his weary a**e’ Karen Vagges, 50, from Dinas Powys, South Wales, spent £120 decorating door Feature, which has a lion head door knocker, can be seen from entrance hallway Karen has even … Read more
Boris Johnson’s vaccine strategy was mired in confusion today amid claims that supplies to areas that have been the quickest to inoculate the most vulnerable will be diverted to slower areas to allow them to catch up. Britain’s Covid vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi this morning denied reports that jabs are being diverted from the fasted parts … Read more
‘I am gagging in support!’ Fans praise Paulini Curuenavuli for being a ‘champ’ after downing four DISGUSTING drinks on I’m A Celebrity… including one made of fish brains and dog hair By Alisha Buaya For Daily Mail Australia Published: 12:17 GMT, 20 January 2021 | Updated: 12:20 GMT, 20 January 2021 Paulini Curuenavuli drew the … Read more
More than 20 shellfish trucks were parked on roads near 10 Downing Street and the Houses of Parliament today to protest against post-Brexit bureaucracy that has stopped them exporting to the European Union. Trucks with slogans such as ‘Brexit carnage’ and ‘incompetent government destroying shellfish industry’ were parked just yards away from Prime Minister Boris … Read more
So who WAS the Chatty Rat who blabbed about Boris Johnson’s bike ride seven miles from Downing Street? ‘Chance sighting’ of PM in the Olympic Park raises suspicions of repeat of last year’s furore over Cabinet leak fears PM appeared to be contravening official guidance on exercise during lockdown This explicitly states that participants should … Read more