He is one of the most powerful and popular figures in the Government, but Chancellor Rishi Sunak chose not to attend the Cabinet sub-committee meeting to discuss an overhaul of local lockdown rules on Monday afternoon. Instead, he dispatched a junior minister, John Glen, to repeat his vehement objections to the ‘traffic light system’ of … Read more
Pierce Brosnan shares touching message to his wife of 19 years, Keely Shaye Smith, and gifts her a painting as they celebrate her 57th birthday By Natasha Hooper For Mailonline Published: 12:25 BST, 28 September 2020 | Updated: 12:25 BST, 28 September 2020 He has one of the longest-standing marriages in Hollywood. And Pierce Brosnan … Read more
As the Government deadline for striking a Brexit deal with the EU approaches next month, I hear that old bruiser Nigel Farage is preparing for a possible political return to the fray. Only last year the Brexit Party won the European elections and became the largest group in the European Parliament, with 26 MEPs. Those … Read more
His reign at the BBC began with a headline-grabbing decision — to overturn the ludicrous ban on singing Rule, Britannia at the Last Night Of The Proms — that had the metropolitan luvvies who make up the Beeb hierarchy spluttering into their soya milk lattes last week. Tim Davie, the new director-general, is also targeting … Read more
As excuses to cancel dinner go, the text message sent by Tony Abbott to a British friend newly arrived in Sydney is hard to beat. ‘Sorry to do this at short notice, mate, but I’m trying to put out these damned bush fires.’ He wasn’t joking. The former Australian leader and volunteer fireman had flown … Read more
After the Department for Education’s shambolic handling of this year’s A-levels results, there are growing question marks over the future of Jonathan Slater, the DfE’s most senior civil servant. Slater was already under fire over the miserable failure to organise an orderly return to school for millions of children before the end of the summer … Read more
Fiasco doesn’t begin to do it justice. Perhaps omnishambles – a word first coined in the BBC political satire The Thick of It – comes a little closer. Or given the PM’s reliance on his trusted henchman Dominic Cummings to read the political runes, should it be Domnishambles? In reality, the events presided over by … Read more
As the Labour MP for Leicester West, one might expect Liz Kendall to spend this week focusing on her constituents, many of whom must be deeply concerned about the implementation of a second lockdown in the city. Well, don’t hold your breath. For this Thursday, Kendall, who ran unsuccessfully for the Labour leadership in 2015, … Read more
‘Here’s looking at you, kid’: Pierce Brosnan marks the seventh anniversary of his daughter Charlotte’s death with a touching Instagram post By Jack Newman For Mailonline Published: 10:19 BST, 29 June 2020 | Updated: 10:24 BST, 29 June 2020 Pierce Brosnan has marked the seventh anniversary of his daughter Charlotte’s death with a touching post … Read more
Over a private lunch in his Downing Street flat three weeks ago, Boris Johnson persuaded the Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill that it was time to stand down. It was an amicable conversation as Sedwill had been thinking for a while it was time to move on. The burden of the job had become too … Read more