CITY DIARY: The Prime Minister clearly didn’t let Corbyn’s ‘stupid woman’ jibe spoil her evening

CITY DIARY: The Prime Minister clearly didn’t let Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘stupid woman’ jibe spoil her evening, as she headed off to a convivial dinner

The Prime Minister pictured this week outside 10 Downing Street

The Prime Minister clearly didn’t let Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘stupid woman’ jibe at PMQs spoil her evening on Wednesday. Hours later, a Mayfair mole spotted her sitting down to a convivial dinner in Richard Caring’s discreet dining venue Mark’s Club. Dogged little creature Mrs May, isn’t she? Whatever she’s popping, I think we could all probably use some during the festive period.

Plucky pro-EU Work And Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd’s off-message remarks about a possible second referendum delighted her fellow Remainers. Not least brother Roland, the financial PR who’s chairman of the so-called People’s Vote. The siblings are extremely close. Friends say cunning puppetmeister Roland would simply love to have his younger sister running the country some day.

Former London Stock Exchange boss Xavier Rolet will today be announced as chief executive of wealthy Tory donor Sir Michael Hintze’s hedge fund CQS. It was this time last year that courtly Xavier was eased out of his job early by LSE chairman Donald Brydon, provoking an unseemly shareholder spat. And what of Brydon? He’s just been asked to chair a Government review into standards in the audit market. How cheering that 2018 has worked out so well for these two financial titans.

Headline from cerebral German weekly Der Spiegel yesterday: ‘Corbyn Soll May ‘Dumme Frau’.’ Sounds even more insulting in German, no?

A bad week for social media. Facebook is under fire again for its data privacy practices. Meanwhile, an Amnesty International report describing Twitter as a ‘toxic place for women’ has sent share prices tumbling. Citron Research yesterday advised investors that Twitter was now the ‘Harvey Weinstein of social media’. Steady on!

It’s that time of year once again for the Bank of England’s Christmas quiz. Sample brainteaser: ‘Most historians place the birth of Jesus just a few years before 1AD. According to the Maddison dataset, what was the world GDP per capita at the time?’ Dur! It was $444. Such festive fun those quizmasters must have down on Threadneedle Street.

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