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
Theresa May, Britain’s second female Prime Minister, has sounded off about the absence of women in company boardrooms in a recent report. By gender diversity group Pipeline, the report criticised the fact there are only 13 female chief executive officers at the top 350 FTSE companies. Mrs May thunders in the report: ‘Every single male … Read more
ANDREW PIERCE: Ex-deputy takes her revenge on ‘Squeaker’ John Bercow By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 23:42 BST, 26 July 2020 | Updated: 23:54 BST, 26 July 2020 When the next list of working peers is announced, one name will be conspicuously absent. Sensationally, John Bercow is the first Speaker in 230 years … Read more
ANDREW PIERCE: Is Philip Hammond getting too cosy with tyrants? By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 02:03 BST, 20 July 2020 | Updated: 02:03 BST, 20 July 2020 When the Kremlin tried to assassinate double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, Philip Hammond was hawkish in calling for retaliation against Russia. But is the … Read more
First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon vowed yesterday to make the case again for independence after the pandemic crisis eases, speaking on BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show. Always on the media, her personal approval ratings are high and support for Scottish independence at 54 per cent in the latest poll is at a four-year high. … 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
‘Once you’re branded as Bond, it’s with you forever’: Pierce Brosnan insists he has ‘no regrets’ about being replaced as 007 when he was axed by producers over the phone By Sean O’grady For Mailonline Published: 11:56 BST, 1 July 2020 | Updated: 11:57 BST, 1 July 2020 Pierce Brosnan has insisted he has ‘no … 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