ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Airport law ends ‘macho man’ Keir’s flights of fancy By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 23:31 GMT, 27 March 2021 | Updated: 00:07 GMT, 28 March 2021 It would be no surprise if tomorrow’s introduction of a new law aimed at stopping people going to an airport without ‘good reason’ … Read more
ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Is MPs’ watchdog about to upset the Apple-cart? By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:15 GMT, 6 March 2021 | Updated: 22:39 GMT, 6 March 2021 An apple a day may keep the doctor away – but not the expenses watchdog, as MPs are about to discover. The Independent Parliamentary … Read more
ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Former Tory Health and Transport Minister George Freeman ought to be known as ‘Not So Freeman’ – owing to his unusual take on the meaning of ‘pro bono’ By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 23:01 GMT, 20 February 2021 | Updated: 02:22 GMT, 21 February 2021 Former Tory Health and … Read more
No sooner has Eddie Lister been made the Prime Minister’s envoy for the Gulf and ‘special projects’ than I can reveal a potential conflict of interest. What’s more, Lister, who became a lord in November, has also broken parliamentary rules by failing to declare his own special project in the register of outside interests. New … Read more
ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Another fine mess for Quintessentially’s Ben? By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:47 GMT, 16 January 2021 | Updated: 22:49 GMT, 16 January 2021 Want a private jet to the Maldives, a session with the best plastic surgeon or a private tutor for little Aloysius? If so, Ben Elliot’s lifestyle … Read more
ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Will Anne Widdecombe finally waltz her way into the Lords? By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:08 GMT, 3 January 2021 | Updated: 01:19 GMT, 3 January 2021 Is the former Tory Minister turned Strictly contestant Ann Widdecombe making another bid to step up into the Lords? For in her … Read more
ANNA MIKHAILOVA: So did Dominic Cummings wave through his own £45,000 pay hike? By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:02 GMT, 19 December 2020 | Updated: 02:00 GMT, 20 December 2020 ‘The thing that officials will try hardest to do is convey to you that you have no role in personnel decisions … Read more
ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Efficiency drive that’s as clear as Maude: Ex-Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude is brought back to his old department to advise on government efficiency – while doing same for foreign powers including Russia By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:41 GMT, 22 November 2020 | Updated: 01:42 GMT, 22 November … Read more
Don’t worry Ben, we’ll give you the Low-down: ANNA MIKHAILOVA brings Lord Lansley’s staffer up to speed on on his boss’s paid directorship By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:24 BST, 25 October 2020 | Updated: 01:25 BST, 25 October 2020 Ben Rich, staffer to former Health Secretary Lord Lansley, may be … Read more