Mandrake
28 June 2022
Hammond and Crosby make for strange bedfellows
The prime minister's strategist Lynton Crosby set up a lettings business with Remainer former chancellor Philip Hammond
Read the full article28 June 2022
Lord Deben’s business still a moneyspinner
The former environment minister is making big profits - enough to keep his children in hamburgers for a while yet
Read the full article27 June 2022
Why the Daily Mail didn’t run Walters’ story
Had Lord Rothermere not relieved Geordie Greig from his editorship then the paper would’ve published the scoop
Read the full article21 June 2022
Mandrake Exclusive: The extraordinary detail of how Downing Street tried to bury that Carrie Johnson story
The New European has led the way on the tale of the disappearing scoop. But for supposedly bold national newspapers it has been an exercise in timidity
Read the full article21 June 2022
Rebel Leadsom is sitting on a pile
Andrea Leadsom may not be about to return to the Cabinet but she's unlikely to go hungry
Read the full article21 June 2022
Rare outbreak of honesty incurs Farage’s wrath
Boris Johnson's Wakefield candidate has angered the former Ukip leader by admitting the Leave campaign was "built on lies"
Read the full article21 June 2022
The Daveys cash in, but it’s small change to Clegg
Ed Davey's family business has been put into liquidation but the likely payout would hardly cover a couple of hours' work for Nick Clegg
Read the full article20 June 2022
Ukraine has little reason to thank Boris Johnson
Both the Cameron and Johnson government rebuffed the plucky nation’s repeated plea for weapons over the last decade
Read the full article20 June 2022
The Rothermeres open their doors to the public
MANDRAKE is assured they are opening their country retreat for charitable causes rather than tax advantages
Read the full article19 June 2022
Times journalist: I stand by my Johnson scoop
Times journalist Simon Walters stands by his story which claims Boris Johnson wanted to give Carrie a £100,000-a-year role
Read the full article18 June 2022
Mystery surrounds Times exclusive claiming Boris Johnson wanted to give Carrie Symonds a £100,000 role
Why did one of the scoops of the year suddenly disappear from newspapers friendly to the prime minister?
Read the full article14 June 2022
How Rishi gets rich
The Sunday Times Rich List gives a better indication of the chancellor’s household income than the parliamentary register
Read the full article14 June 2022
The Daily Mail take aim at Starmer
The paper increased their attacks on the Labour leader after he said he planned to outlaw the non-dom tax status
Read the full article13 June 2022
The Innovative Medicines Fund gets a cash injection
£340m of taxpayers’ cash will be made available to it - news that was overlooked during the Tory revolt against Boris Johnson
Read the full article13 June 2022
Who’s Boris Johnson’s real boss?
The prime minister always referred to the Telegraph as his “real boss”. Will they soon be welcoming him home?
Read the full article13 June 2022
Corbyn’s French introduction that got lost in translation
The failed Labour leader and French hard leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon had a somewhat interesting first meeting
Read the full article07 June 2022
Mail men head for the bunkers
A trip to Portugal for veterans of the Daily Mail was more like an episode of Last of the Summer Wine
Read the full article07 June 2022
Davey dividend would be small change for Clegg
A rise in net worth for the Lib Dem leader's consultancy pales in comparison with his predecessor's fortune
Read the full article07 June 2022
May thinks revenge a dish best served cold
The former prime minister may be planning the coup de grâce to the successor whose name she can't bear to hear
Read the full article06 June 2022
Legally Blonde bites back at Quentin Letts review
His review of Legally Blonde made it clear he wasn’t pleased about the casting of “fuller-bodied, nonbinary actors”
Read the full article06 June 2022
Dominic Cummings can’t keep his mouth shut
When it comes to gossiping about Carrie Johnson, Cummings isn't tight-lipped
Read the full article06 June 2022
Carrie faces a PR challenge
There is an ongoing inquiry into the running of The Aspinall Foundation, who Carrie works for when she's not organising “strategy meetings” in Downing Street
Read the full article31 May 2022
Matt Hancock’s enjoying the good life
Hancock’s somewhat modest outside earnings haven't stopped him enjoying life with the woman he found it so difficult to socially distance from during lockdown
Read the full article31 May 2022
Has the paper review slot had its day?
These days reviewers are rarely journalists but individuals with axes to grind
Read the full article31 May 2022
Sir Bill Wiggin doesn’t feel the pinch
The old Etonian has been left unscathed by the cost-of-living crisis
Read the full article30 May 2022
Is Michael Gove eyeing up Number 10?
The levelling up minister may have, finally, come out in support of the prime minister, but he’s also just accepted his first donation since 2021
Read the full article30 May 2022
Boris Johnson’s been living it up for years
Back in 2019, a source told MANDRAKE that the prime minister started work late, looked dishevelled and treated the Downing Street flat like “student digs”
Read the full article30 May 2022
Uxbridge has finally taken umbrage with Boris Johnson
The latest poll shows the prime minister would lose his won seat at the next election
Read the full article24 May 2022
Bournemouth MPs Elwood and Burns clash over Johnson
Elwood wants the prime minister to make way for a new leader whereas Burns still believes in his “good friend Boris”
Read the full article24 May 2022
The free-for-all at Number 10
The Sunday Times gave the impression recently that anyone, elected or not, can have a go at governing
Read the full article24 May 2022
Boris Johnson’s advice to those in poverty is nothing more than infuriating
As Carrie Johnson once shrieked at him: “You don’t care for anything because you’re spoilt.”
Read the full article23 May 2022
Daily Mail takes aim at Andrew Bailey
The newspaper recently asked what the point of the governor of the Bank of England was
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