L’Oreal has pocketed nearly £1m in British taxpayer cash – despite making billions in profits during the pandemic. New figures from HM Revenue & Customs reveal the global cosmetic giant was given ‘£500,000 to £1m’ in furlough money in December and January alone – and continues to claim. And while some of the French-based firm’s … Read more
L’Oreal has pocketed nearly £1m in British taxpayer cash – despite making billions in profits during the pandemic. New figures from HM Revenue & Customs reveal the global cosmetic giant was given ‘£500,000 to £1m’ in furlough money in December and January alone – and continues to claim. And while some of the French-based firm’s … Read more
ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Has the ‘Disneyland’ House of Commons had its day? Review is underway into the ‘pimped out’ Parliament where private firms hire rooms for corporate booze and schmoozefests By Anna Mikhailova Deputy Political Editor For The Mail On Sunday Published: 23:37 BST, 3 April 2021 | Updated: 02:16 BST, 4 April 2021 ‘This is … Read more
ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Airport law ends ‘macho man’ Keir’s flights of fancy By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 23:31 GMT, 27 March 2021 | Updated: 00:07 GMT, 28 March 2021 It would be no surprise if tomorrow’s introduction of a new law aimed at stopping people going to an airport without ‘good reason’ … Read more
ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Spreadsheet Phil…the nightclub king of Essex! Former Chancellor Hammond is financial backer behind TOWIE’s Sugar Hut By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:01 GMT, 20 March 2021 | Updated: 22:29 GMT, 20 March 2021 The former Chancellor is a financial backer behind the Sugar Hut, a kitschy nightclub in his … Read more
ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Former Tory Health and Transport Minister George Freeman ought to be known as ‘Not So Freeman’ – owing to his unusual take on the meaning of ‘pro bono’ By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 23:01 GMT, 20 February 2021 | Updated: 02:22 GMT, 21 February 2021 Former Tory Health and … Read more
Having come a cropper during last week’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is set for another bruising encounter with a far more accomplished blonde adversary – his former lover. Phillippa Kaufmann QC, the distinguished human rights barrister, and Starmer QC, a former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), could face off at the … Read more
ANNA MIKHAILOVA: MP Jonathan Reynolds who is leading Labour’s charge to keep the £20 Universal Credit uplift spent £39,225 last year on a grace-and-favour flat By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:58 GMT, 24 January 2021 | Updated: 01:59 GMT, 24 January 2021 How piquant that the MP leading Labour’s charge to keep … Read more
ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Rishi Sunak turns to his vampire squid pals again for help By Anna Mikhailova Deputy Political Editor For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:43 GMT, 10 January 2021 | Updated: 01:44 GMT, 10 January 2021 Rishi Sunak keeps the chumocracy chugging along with the appointment of yet another of his former Goldman Sachs … Read more
ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Will Anne Widdecombe finally waltz her way into the Lords? By Anna Mikhailova For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:08 GMT, 3 January 2021 | Updated: 01:19 GMT, 3 January 2021 Is the former Tory Minister turned Strictly contestant Ann Widdecombe making another bid to step up into the Lords? For in her … Read more