Shockwaves from the decision to release black cab rapist John Worboys spread across Westminster. Speaker’s wife Sally Bercow once had a too-close-for-comfort encounter with the criminal. When she was in Oxford University’s Conservative Association in the 1980s, Sally booked Worboys – then a stripper called Terry the Minder – to entertain the members, joining him on stage during his act.
Despite Brexit, one corner of Brussels is forever British – the office sofa belonging to UK Commissioner Sir Julian King, on which he has placed a Union Jack cushion. After word of this reached the ear of bibulous Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, he swung into action: when Sir Julian arrived at work for the new term, he found an extra two cushions on his sofa – both bearing the EU flag. A note attached read: ‘Yours, from Jean-Claude.’ The swine!
Of all the knighthoods ‘coincidentally’ awarded to every MP on the committee overseeing the HS2 rail project, the one for Tory Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (above right) has caused the most tongue-wagging
Of all the knighthoods ‘coincidentally’ awarded to every MP on the committee overseeing the HS2 rail project – as revealed by last week’s Mail on Sunday – the one for Tory Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown has caused the most tongue-wagging. Sir Geoffrey’s nickname in the Commons tea-room is ‘Mr Magoo’ – the bumbling cartoon character who is constantly taking the wrong turn.
As Tony Blair’s No 10 spin doctor, Alastair Campbell famously said ‘we don’t do God’ when his boss was asked about religion. Seems pro-EU, atheist Campbell is prepared to make an exception for Brexit and Trump. He says: ‘I’m sure if there was a God, everything I think I know about Him, He wouldn’t like what Brexit and Trump are doing to His world. And He would be right.’
Sir Geoffrey’s nickname in the Commons tea-room is ‘Mr Magoo’ – the bumbling cartoon character who is constantly taking the wrong turn.
Theresa May’s reshuffle deliberations are being watched closely by Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry. The Prime Minister is mulling whether to fill Damian Green’s old job as First Secretary of State, effectively the Deputy PM. Emily revels in her second job as ‘Shadow First Sec’ – which allows her to take an occasional turn at PMQs in the Commons. If Mrs May decides that no one in her Cabinet deserves the elevation, then Emily’s gig disappears too. ‘Oh well,’ says a very undistraught-sounding Labour source.
A gripping new novel by bawdy ex-Left-wing MP Bob Marshall- Andrews is about a group of rich Americans on safari. It features ‘a psychopathic murderous chimpanzee called “Dump” who has brutally usurped the position of alpha male and threatens the lives of all around him as his reign of terror reaches a terrible and inevitable climax’. For ‘Dump,’ read D. Trump.