Although it has been widely noted that Lord Liverpool was the last prime minister before Boris Johnson to marry while in office, the more apposite precedent is Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. In even shorter time than Johnson – 253 days against 675 – he managed to combine the duties of high office with both divorce and marriage. Grafton was a notorious gadabout who,
One organisation planning a mass gathering later in the year, instead of waiting until Boris Johnson announces whether England’s Covid-19 restrictions will remain after 21 June, is the Conservative Party. The Tories are charging exhibitors up to £51,600 (including VAT) for combined physical and virtual stands at its Manchester four-day conference in October. I trust ensuring the party money-spinner goes ahead won’t influence Johnson’s decision. Whoever selected a publicity shot for the fringe guide presumably didn’t recognise that the journalist sitting in the front row is Owen Bennett. He wrote a book exposing Michael Gove’s cocaine snorting, then left the
The former Deputy Prime Minister met Dame Melanie Dawes shortly before he reportedly tried to interfere with the appointment of a new chairman of the watchdog.
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