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Nicky Morgan tipped for an honour after switching sides in Brexit debate, Liam Fox’s nice little earner and Paul Dacre is consoled by John Humphrys. John Humphrys on Radio 4’s Today programme. Photograph: BBC. – Credit: Archant On Newsnight last week, Emily Maitlis was more than justified in asking Nicky Morgan the question “what has […]

Mark Mardell slapped down by bosses for apologising for talking about ‘People v Parliament’ election; new book reveals what’s more extreme than Priti Patel; and Boris Johnson meets The New European’s boss. BBC Radio 4 presenter Mark Mardell apologised for talking about the “people versus parliament election” without attribution or qualification. Picture: BBC – Credit: […]

TIM WALKER hears the prime minister’s routine is ‘leisurely’ to say the least, while the Tories are struggling to find the cash for a general election. Boris Johnson may have claimed to be working non-stop – “I burn the candles at both ends” – but within Downing Street I hear his routine is considered to […]

Mail boss is concerned about Paul Dacre’s Channel 4 show, Question Time undervalues Ken Clarke and David Cameron’s easy ride promoting his memoirs, says TIM WALKER. Paul Dacre’s relationship with his proprietor Lord Rothermere – already strained by his defenestration as editor of the Daily Mail – has taken a further turn for the worse. […]

Lord Rothermere’s non-dom tax status will be preserved if the UK leaves EU, Liam Fox gains weight but no job and Adam Boulton defends press freedom. Daily Mail chairman Viscount Rothermere giving evidence to the Privacy and Injunctions Joint Committee at the House of Commons in London. – Credit: PA Archive/PA Images For a supposedly […]

Journalism proves unrewarding for Michael Gove’s wife, David Cameron hopes Sophie Raworth will prove a soft touch at the Cheltenham Literature Festival and Boris Johnson banks his last £15,524.52 from the Barclay Brothers. No one, including Forbes magazine, has ever doubted Sarah Vine trousers a substantial six-figure salary writing her shouty Daily Mail column. New […]

Dominic Raab joins Boris Johnson and Steve Baker in accepting taxpayer-funded payoffs for quitting; New PM sensitive that he is not loved; and David Cameron is reading Why Nations Fall. Brexit quitters quids in Outside of the Brextremist wonderland, when people choose to quit their jobs they seldom, if ever, trouser a pay-off. That will […]

Joan Bakewell says Stanley Johnson, like Boris, is unprincipled and he’s not dared to show his face at her book club. Brexit convert Jo Johnson is, meanwhile, trousering £4,167 a month from Switzerland. Joan Bakewell attending the Virgin Media BAFTA TV awards, held at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Picture: Matt Crossick/PA Wire – […]

Johnson’s personal protection team is the biggest yet, says TIM WALKER, with civil unrest expected if the new prime minister goes through with a no-deal Brexit In what appears to be a tacit admission of his unpopularity, Boris Johnson has agreed with the parliamentary and diplomatic protection team – a division of the Metropolitan Police […]

TIM WALKER explores; Why David Cameron will not be promoting his book for Rupert Murdoch at the Cheltenham Literary Festival, Christopher Booker’s funeral proves awkward for the Telegraph, and Leave.EU remains a licence to lose money. Leave campaigner Arron Banks. Picture: PA/ Victoria Jones – Credit: PA Archive/PA Images When it comes to picking Britain’s […]

Christopher Booker, the Telegraph columnist, died believing the Barclay brothers had ‘wrecked’ his newspaper and had a hand in wrecking the country. Ian Hislop. Photograph by Dave J Hogan/Getty Images. – Credit: Getty Images Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay – the pro-Brexit owners of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph – have not for the […]

Boris Johnson shows no interest in David Davis’s Brexit ‘solution,’ Lord Bell bails out of The Great British Brexit Company, and is the morality of the Daily Telegraph’s £270,000-a-year columnist causing concern to the Barclay brothers? Although ostensibly still backing Boris Johnson for the Tory leadership, David Davis’s advice to him ahead of the weekend’s […]

Our diary reveals how the man tipped to be PM was banned from an entire floor of the European Commission building after lewd behaviour with a photocopier, what Jacob Rees-Mogg was paid for his ‘mind-bogglingly banal’ book, and Michael Gove’s dubious background as an ‘environmentalist.’ MP Jacob Rees-Mogg. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) – Credit: […]

Outsted Mail chief Paul Dacre and May’s former chief of staff tipped for honours; Michael Gove talks on D-Day of his sacrifice; and how Steve Baker can live in the lap of luxury in the heart of Westminster. Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson, who is bidding to succeed Sir Vince Cable as the party’s leader. […]

Ed Davey says resurgent Lib Dems must take a ‘robust’ approach to getting airtime commensurate with their vote share, Paul Dacre’s salary goes up after ceasing to be Daily Mail’s editor, and Rupert Murdoch fixes it for two of his journalists to meet Donald Trump The Lib Dems are to demand a meeting with Lord […]

David Cameron’s ‘sorrow’ for Theresa May didn’t extend to putting in a phone call, how Boris Johnson is raking in £1 million a year, and hail and farewell, Sir Vince Cable. Although David Cameron professed on television to have felt “desperately sorry” for Theresa May on the day she made her tearful farewell speech outside […]

Today editor Sarah Sands repays debt to former Telegraph chief, Nigel Farage all powerful as boss of the Brexit Party Ltd, BJ4PM won’t end well and will it be July 15 when Theresa May finally goes? Lord Heseltine departs after a visit to 10 Downing Street. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA. – Credit: PA Archive/PA Images Sarah […]

Andrew Marr, Laura Kuenssberg and Kirsty Wark are being touted as ‘specialist Brexit speakers’ by a leading speaking agency; Dame Maggie Smith points an accusing finger at Lord Howard; and why Gina Miller knows how to offer relationship advice. If many of the BBC’s top presenters seem to be revelling in the never-ending Brexit saga, […]

Steve Bannon appoints Michael Seed as chaplain to his controversial right wing institute, David Cameron competes with his former ‘gatekeeper’ to get his memoirs out first, the Today show silences another Remain voice and the Daily Express says ‘thanks, but no thanks’ to Gina Miller Michael Seed – the so-called ‘priest to the stars’ who […]

David Cameron is not prepared to risk a promotional tour for his memoirs that coincides with Brexit happening, Michael Gove builds up war chest for leadership campaign, BBC irks staff by putting in for diversity and inclusion award and how Greta Thunberg rendered Lord Lawson speechless. Swedish environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty […]

Rupert Murdoch has been told to shut up about Brexit on Twitter by Jerry Hall, the politicisation of the BBC press office, how Mandrake got a passport emblazoned with the words European Union… and how Annunziata Rees-Mogg has been struggling for a role in life. Annunziata Rees-Mogg, sister of Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, speaks at […]

Gina Miller reacts with chutzpah to a petition to silence her, Nigel Farage knows Dad’s Army scripts by heart and Christopher Booker sets an example for Telegraph colleagues. Although somewhat pre-occupied at the present time, Theresa May is being invited to consider whether Gina Miller should keep her thoughts about Brexit to herself. A change.org […]

Why Olivia Williams’ new film about Brexit means the world to her, the Brextremist takeover of the Catholic Herald, Arron Banks quits Leave.EU… and could old war films have inspired two evangelists for Brexit? TIM WALKER takes us through it. Not content simply with taking part in last month’s march against Brexit, Olivia Williams, best […]

Members threaten to quit Arts Club after Michael Gove given free membership, Telegraph’s hypocrisy on Islamophobia exposed, and how the BBC’s Chris Morris is ‘trying’ to make colleagues aware that public opinion on Brexit has shifted. There are rumblings of discontent at the Arts Club in Mayfair over its decision to grant honorary membership to […]

TIM WALKER explores Christopher Booker’s ‘inhumane’ treatment by Telegraph, how Will Self outdid Paddington’s ‘hard stare’ and Gina Miller urging people to turn out for Nigel Farage. Christopher Booker of the Sunday Telegraph. Picture: Getty Images – Credit: Archant Christopher Booker has been writing for the Sunday Telegraph since it was launched in 1961, but, […]

Nigel Farage has still to claim expenses for his much-talked-about private jet to Strasbourg, the Brexit evangelist who wrote about the ‘cloying molasses of Brussels,’ and who was behind Amber Rudd’s defiant stand against Theresa May? Britain’s Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd. (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images) – Credit: AFP/Getty Images After having his […]

Our diary discloses how Christopher Moran – an ally of Arlene Foster and Boris Johnson – is doing well out of his property empire, why the BBC won’t give airtime to the Brexit jobless and the latest twist in the mystery of who funded Nigel Farage’s private jet. ‘Sex for sale’ does Mr Moran no […]

David Davis focuses on his outside earnings, Telegraph accused of being ‘Stalinist’ and Madeleina Kay is the latest to complain about the BBC’s Brexit bias David Davis has proved yet again that no-one ever got poor being a cheerleader for Brexit. The former DExEU minister has just come clean about how much money he’s now […]

After Mandrake reported on a secret ‘Remainer register’ at the BBC, TIM WALKER speaks to the academics who have been dropped from its political programmes at the last minute. Mandrake’s revelation that the BBC is routinely standing down guests after cross-checking them against their secret ‘Remainer register’ has prompted a number of senior academics to […]

Mandrake can disclose the BBC has a Remainer register of talking heads it deems to be ‘unsound’ on the most divisive issue of our times. ‘What’s sinister is the extent of research that’s gone into it and how it extends beyond the political arena into other worlds such as show business,’ a corporation journalist tells […]

Our diary reveals how Brexit is proving good for Jacob Rees-Mogg’s businesses, the bill for Theresa May’s charm offensive ahead of the vote on her deal… and why Fiona Bruce is the lady for David Cameron. Brexit is proving good for business for Jacob Rees-Mogg. Saliston – a holding company that is part of the […]

Our diary focuses on the TV journalists competing for David Cameron’s on screen regrets about Brexit, the ousted Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre’s unlikely casting as a sex god and how the former Tory MP James Wharton has got Gavin Williamson out of his trademark navy blue suit. The fight is on for Dave’s confession […]