One week into Boris Johnson‘s campaign to take over from Theresa May as Prime Minister last year, long-standing differences of opinion among his team erupted. Lynton Crosby, the strategist who had masterminded his victory as London Mayor, was frozen out by Boris’s partner Carrie Symonds, who was convinced he had orchestrated her recent departure from … Read more
Two firms linked to billionaire British steel magnate Sanjeev Gupta recieved tens of millions in emergency Covid loans despite only having 11 UK staff Greensill Capital provided funding to two companies linked to Sanjeev Gupta Payments made through Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme London-based lender employs former Prime Minister David Cameron as adviser By Rory Tingle … Read more
What brass! Eco peer who runs oligarch’s giant metals firm pollutes House of Lords rules By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:15 BST, 4 October 2020 | Updated: 01:17 BST, 4 October 2020 Lord Barker of Battle took a break from running oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s giant metals firm last week to deliver … Read more
Dave the rave: Prime Minister David Cameron was secret club king who would ‘lurk about in the corner with a big baseball cap on, gurning’ 1980s dance music pioneer Adamski believes David Cameron visited his club The DJ, whose most famous track was Killer, said the future PM wore a cap He claimed Mr Cameron … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: ‘She looked like she was going to eat him for breakfast’: Sasha Swire intimately drapes her arm over David Cameron’s shoulder and whispers in his ear in 2006 pictures as MP’s wife claims ex-PM clumsily flirted with her in tell-all memoirs Photographs were taken at the Black and White Conservative Ball 14 years ago … Read more
Fiery Marco Pierre White became the first Briton to be awarded three Michelin stars, and now his younger son, Luciano, is cooking up his own recipe for success. I can reveal the 26-year-old is defying the economic crisis by opening his first restaurant next week: Luccio’s, in Dorchester, Dorset. ‘It’s classic Italian at affordable prices with … Read more
Beatlemania didn’t go out with the Sixties. Keira Knightley has revealed her daughter, Delilah, has become ‘obsessed’ with The Beatles at the tender age of five — and is besotted with 78-year-old Sir Paul McCartney. ‘It is really obsessive,’ says the Atonement star, who is married to rocker James Righton. ‘She knows all of the four … Read more
Samantha Cameron has maintained a dignified silence since Sasha Swire spilled the most intimate secrets about their friendship. But now her sister, Emily Sheffield, has hit back in the most personal fashion. Emily has dismissed Sasha as a ‘frustrated housewife’ and suggested she wrote the tell-all book because she was bitter at not being mentioned in … Read more
The husband of a Russian socialite who is the Conservative Party’s biggest female donor was secretly funded by an oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin, leaked files allegedly reveal. Lubov Chernukhin has given £1.7m to the Tories and spent personal time with the last three Prime Ministers, including a dinner with Theresa May and … Read more
ANDREW PIERCE: How Tory jail cuts hacked off David Cameron’s top aide By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 02:10 BST, 21 September 2020 | Updated: 02:18 BST, 21 September 2020 Few Tory luminaries, it appears, had more harrowing personal experiences of the coalition government’s austerity measures than David Cameron‘s former Downing Street communications … Read more