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For months, Sir Humphrey has been at war with Boris. Now it’s George Smiley’s turn. ‘The security services are furious,’ a Minister tells me. ‘No 10 have been saying things they’re not supposed to say.’ Their anger revolves around the hunt for the ‘Chatty Rat’ and the decision to use what has euphemistically been dubbed ‘invasive methods’ to find the mole’s identity. ‘The spooks were brought in to catch the Chatty Rat,’ the Minister explains, ‘but they said it was vital the details of their investigations weren’t made public. They didn’t want to reveal their ...

DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP via Getty Images She’s a devil, she’s an angel: she’s a pushy and whimsical ‘Princess Nut Nut’ or a steadfast friend who has long campaigned for animal welfare and feminist causes, reviving the faltering modernisation of British Conservatism. She’s modest and keeps out of the limelight – standing alongside staffers rather than in front of the glossy black door of No 10 when Boris Johnson returned to Downing Street after his December 2019 election victory – or she’s a siren in a high-stakes Game of Thrones, dubbed Cersei after the glamorous ...

Back in June 2019 – when it became clear Boris was sailing to victory in the Tory leadership election, but there were serious divisions between his official campaign and allies of his partner Carrie Symonds – I wrote: ‘There cannot be two competing Boris campaigns. There cannot be two competing Boris Downing Streets.  And there cannot be two competing Boris administrations. At the moment there is Team Boris and there is Team Carrie. The next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is going to have to choose between them.’ Boris never chose. Which is why this morning his Government is ea...

Advertisement Britain's top mandarin has warned high-level Whitehall officials should not have second jobs because it threatens the 'integrity and impartiality' of the civil service as he ordered a crackdown on mandarins with 'problematic' external paid roles amid the David Cameron lobbying scandal. Cabinet Secretary Simon Case, formerly private secretary to the Duke of Cambridge, yesterday ordered the heads of all government departments to search their ranks for civil servants taking money for a second job that could pose a potential conflict of interest. In a letter sent to senior mandarins...

Boris gets one over on the EU Updated / Tuesday, 16 Feb 2021 09:06 UK 1 EU Nil You have to hand it to Boris. Part of his wheeze when plotting  his way to Downing Street was he promised to take the UK out of the EU and set sail for the sunny uplands. When Covid-19 arrived like an earthquake, his administration made a horlicks of its strategy, resulting in the UK having some of the highest infection and death rates in the world. But then when he was stuck in deep manure, he spotted a gap and went for it. As a result of his gamble, the UK are currently World Vaccinator champions, leaving t...