Mandrake
07 November 2022
Does Labour have designs on Conor Burns?
Burns is seen as making the true blue Tory heartland seat look “eminently winnable” for Labour
Read the full article07 November 2022
Sir Gavin Williamson feels he deserves more status
The former defence and education secretary feels he's never been awarded the rank he deserves
Read the full article01 November 2022
Has Lord Rothermere got his priorities straight?
Only recently The Daily Mail aggressively pushed for Liz Truss as leader one day and then delighted in her downfall the next
Read the full article01 November 2022
The Downing Street flat proves good for business
The publicity Lulu Lytle gained by being Boris and Carrie Johnson's interior designer has been good for business
Read the full article31 October 2022
Meet Rishi Sunak’s fabulously wealthy new policy chief
Eleanor Shawcross is married to the Next boss Lord Wolfson, whose personal fortune is estimated to run into hundreds of millions
Read the full article31 October 2022
Did Lord Snooty urge Johnson to sit out Tory race?
Privately and publicly, Charles Moore told his fellow Old Etonian that he should “sit this one out”
Read the full article31 October 2022
Boris Johnson to write a biography of his hero: himself
The former prime minister still hasn't finished his biography of Shakespeare but he's found a more interesting subject
Read the full article25 October 2022
How Penny Mordaunt got her nickname
Around the corridors of power, Mordaunt is known as "the admiral"
Read the full article25 October 2022
Johnson’s u-turn sends his supporters spinning
The former prime minister marched his backers to the top of the hill - and left them to make their own way back down
Read the full article25 October 2022
Hancock hoping for a comeback
The former health secretary has struggled to make big bucks outside of politics
Read the full article25 October 2022
Paul Dacre is determined to get his peerage
The rejected Mail man is campaigning hard for a place on Parliament's red benches
Read the full article24 October 2022
Who were Boris’s backers?
Mandrake challenges Sir James Duddridge to now name the 100 fellow Tory MPs he claimed backed the former prime minister's return
Read the full article24 October 2022
The Truss tat left to flog
Liz Truss leaves behind a legacy of thousands of unsold mugs all emblazoned with the words: “In Liz we Truss”
Read the full article18 October 2022
Hadley Freeman leaves the Guardian
One insider tells MANDRAKE that there is more to her departure than meets the eye
Read the full article18 October 2022
Chope finds the wrong side of the argument
Chope was one of the few Tory MPs willing to go on air to defend Truss's mini-budget
Read the full article18 October 2022
Sarah Vine takes aim at Truss
Vine accused the prime minister of being unable to show even a shred of empathy
Read the full article17 October 2022
Allister Heath keeps the Brexit faith
The Sunday Telegraph editor still stands like Canute against the waves in cheering Britain's departure from the EU
Read the full article17 October 2022
Hate to say I told you so, Mr Dacre…
Mandrake warned the Mail boss that his role was set to bar him from his coveted peerage
Read the full article17 October 2022
Downing Street solves chancellor’s house hunt
His move to No 11 suits Jeremy Hunt, who has submitted plans for a substantial refurbishment of his Pimlico home
Read the full article12 October 2022
Farage remains in high spirits
The former Ukip leader's latest party may be struggling but he's personally quids in
Read the full article12 October 2022
Mendoza’s Canary is uncaged
The hard-left website's staff have taken charge and plan to run it as a co-operative
Read the full article12 October 2022
Does Burns face a little local difficulty?
The sacked trade minister's local Conservative association has been slow to rally around him
Read the full article11 October 2022
Is one of Boris Johnson’s loyal supporters in for a reward?
Curiously, Boris Johnson thinks that Andrew Roberts, an avid supporter of the former PM, should receive a peerage in his resignation honours list
Read the full article11 October 2022
Is Michael Gove backtracking over Brexit?
One journalist told MANDRAKE that Gove just saw Brexit as a chance to socialise and enjoy a sense of comradeship with 'Brexity people'
Read the full article11 October 2022
The Mail’s cold war with Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch vocalised that Lord Rothermere's Mail titles were making a blunder in championing Truss to lead the Tories
Read the full article06 October 2022
Akshata Murthy has not quite got the Midas touch
It appears that she has not inherited the financial skills that her father, NR Narayana Murthy, has
Read the full article04 October 2022
Rupert Murdoch springs into action
It's all-change at the Times as Tony Gallagher receives a promotion
Read the full article03 October 2022
There’s no love loss between Kwasi Kwarteng and Nick Robinson
Despite having similar backgrounds of Oxbridge and early Conservative activism, the pair have never gotten along
Read the full article03 October 2022
With friends like the Daily Mail…
Tory MPs are finally beginning to question whether they are in a toxic relationship with Paul Dacre's newspaper
Read the full article03 October 2022
Was Harri sniffing out jobs for Johnson?
The meetings held by the outgoing PM's communications chief in the dying days of his government sound suspiciously like he was hunting out employment opportunities
Read the full article26 September 2022
Why has Nadine Dorries deleted her Twitter account?
If she is soon to be rewarded with a seat in the House of Lords, now may not be the time for people to go trawling through what she's been saying over the years
Read the full article26 September 2022
The Mail’s short memory
Only a few months ago, The Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday were protesting against the “fat cat” bosses of water and energy companies. Now they've changed their tune
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