ANDREW PIERCE: Who is to blame for Nicola Sturgeon’s diversity crisis? By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 01:57 BST, 29 March 2021 | Updated: 01:57 BST, 29 March 2021 After winning a no-confidence vote last week, an embattled Nicola Sturgeon has launched her party’s campaign for the Scottish Parliament elections in May. Scotland, … Read more
When Boris Johnson ordered a £900,000 red, white and blue makeover of the RAF-issue prime ministerial plane last year, some critics questioned why the taxpayer needed to cough up nearly £1 million just so the PM could look like ‘Austin Powers on tour’. The previously sombre grey military Voyager A330 aircraft had already been refitted … Read more
When Boris Johnson ordered a £900,000 red, white and blue makeover of the RAF-issue prime ministerial plane last year, some critics questioned why the taxpayer needed to cough up nearly £1 million just so the PM could look like ‘Austin Powers on tour’. The previously sombre grey military Voyager A330 aircraft had already been refitted … Read more
Labour’s pledge to put No 10’s planned 1 per cent pay rise for nurses at the heart of its local election campaign could mean that one well-heeled minister’s nonchalant dismissal of the nurses’ case will come back to haunt the Government. ‘There are many people in this country who look upon professional jobs in the … Read more
Matt Hancock is furious. Tony Blair, the Health Secretary alleges, has been pinching his ideas for dealing with the pandemic and passing them off as his own. In December, Blair published a paper arguing there should be a 12-week delay between the first and second doses of the coronavirus jab so as to give as … Read more
As turf wars rage among the staff at No. 10, a battle- weary Boris Johnson has sued for peace with one of Parliament’s most senior MPs. In July the PM removed the Tory whip from Julian Lewis in an act of revenge, after the rebellious member for New Forest East stood against Johnson’s preferred candidate, … Read more
ANDREW PIERCE: Tory terrier Tom Tugendhat bites Shami Chakrabarti’s Achilles’ heel By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 01:53 GMT, 25 January 2021 | Updated: 02:02 GMT, 25 January 2021 If the producers of BBC2’s Politics Live were looking to set up a bruising exchange over anti-Semitism in the Labour Party last week, they certainly … Read more
Today was supposed to be the day on which political history would be made — with the debut of the Government’s first ‘West Wing-style’ Press secretary. The appointment of Allegra Stratton, an experienced print and broadcast journalist, as the face and voice of No 10 who would front weeknight TV briefings to a live audience … Read more
When former trade union firebrand Tony Woodley rejected the offer of a peerage in August, it seemed like a fitting act of solidarity with the proletariat by a Left-winger who had once been a Vauxhall Motors shop steward. But within weeks the former General Secretary of Unite had had a change of heart and took … Read more
When former trade union firebrand Tony Woodley rejected the offer of a peerage in August, it seemed like a fitting act of solidarity with the proletariat by a Left-winger who had once been a Vauxhall Motors shop steward. But within weeks the former General Secretary of Unite had had a change of heart and took … Read more