‘Something for *almost* everyone’: John Lewis mocks Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds as PM faces probe into funding for Downing Street flat refurb after getting rid of department store’s ‘nightmare’ furniture John Lewis appeared to mock Boris Johnson and his fiancee Carrie Symonds The refurb of Downing Street flat was to remove ‘John Lewis furniture … Read more
Has John Lewis become common? Shoppers debate whether department store is ‘posh’ after Carrie Symonds ripped out its furnishings at Downing Street – but Prince Charles’ former butler says the store is ‘fit for royalty’ Recent refurb of No 11, where Boris Johnson resides with Carrie Symonds and their baby son Wilfred, has stripped away Theresa … Read more
Senior aide working on Boris Johnson’s successful Tory leadership campaign ‘was being paid by steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta at the same time’ Malin Bogue was director of special projects for the 2019 leadership campaign At the same time she was working for Sangeev Gupta’s Gupta Family Group The empire includes Liberty Steel, Britain’s third-largest steel … Read more
Mail exposés that rocked No 10: From the second lockdown to the Downing Street flat makeover and Carrie’s influence… how our revelations have sent PM and his advisers into a tailspin The Prime Minister has proven unable to stop the release of damaging leaks Some focused on government policy and his personal dealings with tycoons … Read more
Mail exposés that rocked No 10: From the second lockdown to the Downing Street flat makeover and Carrie’s influence… how our revelations have sent PM and his advisers into a tailspin The Prime Minister has proven unable to stop the release of damaging leaks Some focused on government policy and his personal dealings with tycoons … Read more
Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings once represented a near-perfect political allegiance. The country owes them for securing the seismic Brexit victory and guaranteeing its delivery, following numerous pathetically meek failures by Theresa May. United, it felt like nothing could topple them – the future of the UK was in exciting hands. The rulebook was shredded. … Read more
Paul McCartney, Noel Gallagher, Chris Martin lead a host of musicians in letter to Boris Johnson urging an overhaul of the streaming industry By Ryan Smith for MailOnline Published: 15:19 BST, 20 April 2021 | Updated: 15:19 BST, 20 April 2021 Sir Paul McCartney, Noel Gallagher and Chris Martin are among 156 people who have … Read more
There has rarely been a more comprehensive gathering of our nation’s political elite than the crowd that attended Westminster Abbey on a cloudy day in June 2019, for a memorial service to celebrate the life of top Whitehall mandarin Lord (Jeremy) Heywood. The civil servant known as ‘the man who ran Britain’, whose career spanned … Read more
It’s a massacre! In the final extract of his excoriating memoir, Alan Duncan gives his withering take on Johnson’s new reign. Our final extract from Alan Duncan’s riotous diaries opens as Theresa May, beleaguered in No 10, finally announces the date of her departure as prime minister. Meanwhile, Tory MPs are already throwing their hats … Read more
Withering put-downs. Outrageous gossip. And a ringside seat on the maelstrom of the May years… Our third extract from Alan Duncan’s bombshell diaries opens as PM Theresa May is struggling desperately to pull off a Brexit deal. Her popularity among Tory MPs has sunk to an all-time low and several — including Boris Johnson — … Read more