Boris Johnson in crony storm: Prime Minister overrules his advisers to hand peerage to ex-Tory treasurer who was embroiled in donations-for-access scandal The Prime Minister Boris Johnson decided to ennoble City tycoon Peter Cruddas House of Lords Appointments Commission recommended he be turned down It was claimed he offered access to then PM David Cameron … Read more
Boris Johnson has today appointed a former Treasury official who advised former chancellors George Osborne and Alistair Darling as his new chief of staff after a brutal civil war inside No 10 saw Dominic Cummings leave following a power struggle with Carrie Symonds. The PM has recruited Dan Rosenfield for the key job at Downing Street in the wake of the … Read more
Boris Johnson was urged to make a fully functioning test and trace system his Government‘s ‘number one overwhelming priority’ in the summer in an extra-ordinary intervention by his predecessors in Number 10. Former chancellor George Osborne has revealed that Conservatives David Cameron and Sir John Major and the Labour former prime ministers Gordon Brown and … Read more
Ex-PMs Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, John Major and David Cameron joined together MONTHS ago to tell Boris Johnson to make test and trace his ‘number one overwhelming priority’ in order to beat coronavirus Former chancellor George Osborne revealed the letter was sent to PM in July It was signed by David Cameron, John Major, Tony … Read more
Henry Dimbleby, the Government’s food tsar, said ministers need to do more to tackle food poverty Boris Johnson’s own food tsar yesterday accused him of ‘not doing enough’ to prevent children going hungry – as he urged Downing Street to spend £1.2 billion tackling the problem. Henry Dimbleby, the co-founder of the Leon restaurant, demanded … Read more
Ex-chancellor George Osborne savages old ‘frenemy’ Boris Johnson over his ‘optimism’ and urges him to emulate his hero Winston Churchill and be ‘realistic’ about the long-term impact of coronavirus Former chancellor said ‘real leadership is about being realistic’ in BBC podcast Said that Churchill was honest that fight against Nazis would take a long time … Read more
Rishi Sunak’s old boss at Goldman Sachs ‘is in the running’ to become £160,000-a-year BBC chairman Richard Sharp believed to be applying for the prestigious role at the corporation The multi-millionaire Tory donor worked with the Chancellor at banking giant It comes as George Osborne has pulled out of the race for the high-profile role … Read more
George Osborne is the latest name to be linked to the next BBC chairman role, according to reports. The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, who earlier this year missed out on a position as chairman of the Royal Opera House, is being urged to apply for the role, according to The Daily Telegraph. It comes after … Read more
Tensions were running high between the three men sharing a cheese fondue at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2013. United in leading the governing Tory Party and yet utterly divided by their ambition, Prime Minister David Cameron, Chancellor George Osborne and London Mayor Boris Johnson had exhibited their childlike rivalries at a … 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