Ex-prime minister’s rundown home: Gough Whitlam’s house with stained carpets is on the market

Inside ex-prime minister’s rundown home: Gough Whitlam’s dilapidated former home is put on the market – featuring an overgrown garden, broken cupboards and stained carpets Home owned by Gough Whitlam during prime ministership has hit the market  Whitlam sold the house the year he quit politics and it has fallen into disrepair Property has cracked … Read more

Backlash as Australia’s ‘gaffe-prone’ ex-Prime Minister Tony Abbott appointed to Brexit trade role

The decision to appoint a ‘gaffe-prone’ former Australian prime minister as Britain’s post-Brexit trade envoy has been blasted by critics. Tony Abbott is said to be joining the Board of Trade in an advisory role with a mission to help drum up deals around the world. But the appointment of the right-wing Brexiteer, 62, was … Read more

David Cameron leads ex-prime ministers in attacking Boris Johnson for axing foreign aid department

Mr Cameron joined his Labour predecessors to criticise Mr Johnson’s decision to scrap the Department for International Development Former Conservative prime minister David Cameron lash out to Boris Johnson today, branding his decision to axe the UK’s foreign aid department a ‘mistake’. In what is believed to be his first policy intervention since quitting in … Read more