Tory MP Caroline Nokes joined social media users in questioning why people cannot get their eyebrows waxed when men can have their beards trimmed. Beauty salons, nail bars, tattoo and massage studios, body and skin piercing services, physical therapy businesses and spas will reopen from Monday. Updated Covid-19 secure guidance sets out the measures that those providing close … Read more
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have praised a five-year-old double amputee who has raised more than £1million for the NHS by trying to walk 10km. Prince William and Kate, both 38, said they were ‘so proud of the incredible courage and determination shown’ by Tony Hudgell, who had both of his legs amputated as a baby after … Read more
Boris Johnson’s historic decision to abolish the standalone Department for International Development (Dfid) and roll its functions into the Foreign Office is long overdue. Ever since David Cameron expanded Britain’s aid budget to 0.7 per cent of GDP, scandal after scandal has emerged about millions of pounds of hard-pressed UK taxpayers’ money being shovelled into dubious … Read more
David Cameron‘s sister-in-law Emily Sheffield will take over from George Osborne as editor of the Evening Standard, it was announced today. The former Tory chancellor stepped down after three years to become the editor-in-chief of the London free newspaper instead. Former deputy editor of Vogue Ms Sheffield – who has never shied away from airing her own political views … Read more
George Osborne steps down as editor from the Evening Standard… with David Cameron’s sister-in-law lined up to replace him Emily Sheffield, Samantha Cameron’s younger sister, will take the reins on July 1 The paper’s proprietor Evgeny Lebedev has made ex-Chancellor editor in chief Mr Osborne has been paper’s editor since 2017, shortly after he left government … Read more
ANDREW PIERCE: Boris Johnson is every inch a hero to David Cameron’s rich pal By Andrew Pierce for the Daily Mail Published: 01:47 BST, 1 June 2020 | Updated: 02:03 BST, 1 June 2020 After refusing to sack Dominic Cummings for allegedly breaking lockdown rules, Boris Johnson appears to have lost the support of a … Read more
If what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, then what’s good enough for a former Prime Minister’s chickens has got to be good enough for mine. Which is how, earlier this week, I found myself lying prostrate on the grass attempting to construct the latest, most high-tech hen house on the market. … Read more
There is growing fury over the decision to hand control of the NHS‘ Track and Trace programme to a Tory MP’s wife also on the executive horseracing committee that allowed 260,000 people to attend the Cheltenham Festival days before lockdown began. Dido Harding sits on the board of the Jockey Club, the organisers of the world-famous horse … Read more
The former chief executive of TalkTalk, who was at the helm of the company when it was hit by an £80 million cyber attack in 2015, will lead the UK’s test and trace scheme to tackle the coronavirus, set to launch tomorrow. Baroness Dido Harding of Winscombe, 53, was raised on a Somerset pig farm … Read more
CAMILLA CAVENDISH: David Cameron was fat too – but now Boris Johnson’s near death can change the shape of Britain By Camilla Cavendish For The Daily Mail Published: 00:16 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 00:24 BST, 16 May 2020 Any prime minister who launches a war on obesity, as it was announced yesterday that … Read more
Rarely do tributes between political opponents extend beyond leaden platitudes. Before yesterday, the most sincere words of support I’ve heard between party leaders came after David Cameron’s son Ivan died aged six, prompting Gordon Brown to address the House. Watching the hitherto emotionally impregnable Brown, whose own daughter died as a baby, shattered with grief … Read more
With the birth of his son in the early hours of this morning, Boris Johnson becomes only the fourth Prime Minister in 150 years to welcome a baby to Downing Street. His fiancée Carrie Symonds, 32, is thought to be still in the NHS London hospital where she gave birth but will soon return to … Read more
Lockdown, what lockdown? London‘s social scene might have been put on the backburner, but its movers and shakers are refusing to let the fun come to an end. Everyone from the Duchess of Cornwall to Health Secretary Matt Hancock and, reportedly, David Cameron is now socialising via Houseparty, the social network which allows group video … Read more