Reports of Sarah Vine’s hilarious account of how her husband, Education Secretary Michael Gove, upset Mick Jagger by making jokes about his tackle after they stood next to each other at an Oxford University urinal missed the point, so to speak.
When Gove asked for a lift back to London, the riled wrinkly rocker snarled: ‘In the f****** boot.’
But Dog gathers it may have been more out of envy than fury.
One of Gove’s chums explains: ‘When people ask Sarah why she is married to a man who calls himself ugly, she smiles broadly and says, “It wasn’t his big heart that first attracted me.” ’
Big attraction: Sarah Vine, wife of Michael Gove, pictured, says it wasn't the Education Secretary's big heart that attracted herHow convenient for David Cameron’s blunt-speaking Aussie election guru Lynton Crosby that the Prime Minister is to ditch from next week’s Queen’s Speech plans for cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging. Lynton’s PR firm Crosby Textor was paid by tobacco companies to oppose similar moves in Australia. Mr Crosby yesterday denied a claim that he had told Tory MPs in Westminster that such nanny-state legislation in the UK was a bad idea. Tory Ian's still got Victorian values
Tory MP Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger – the great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, left – has inherited her fondness for plain talking.
This was well illustrated when, bristling with anger, the West Somerset MP berated one of David Cameron’s aides over the Tory rout by UKIP in the local elections. ‘Tell the PM from me that he is not the problem, George Osborne is!’ barked Liddell-Grainger.
When the aide replied limply, ‘Anything else, Ian?’ Liddell-Grainger snapped: ‘Yes, shoot Ken Clarke!’
Or, we are not amused, as his great-great-great-gran might have said.
Tory MP Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger has inherited Queen Victoria's fondness for plain talking MPs lecture the rest of us on cutting our cloth according to our purse, but no expense is spared when it comes to their own cloth. They have just spent a staggering £20,000 on a gigantic fancy screen to cover up scaffolding on Westminster Hall during repairs. It is an exact replica of the front of the building and will be thrown away when the work is done.‘It’d be cheaper to knock the whole lot down and leave a big screen there instead,’ sneered a passing Labour MP.
Call her Theresa MaidA study of Tory leadership hopeful Theresa May’s roots by genealogist Roy Stockdill suggests she is the perfect antidote to David Cameron’s so-called ‘posh boys chumocracy’ at No 10.
Stockdill says both grandmothers of vicar’s daughter May were below-stairs servants, and her great-grandfather was a butler.
More Downton Abbey than Downing Street.
Nowhere was the Lib Dems’ local election disaster more humiliating than in Wadebridge, Cornwall, where they lost a seat to Collin Brewer, 68.
The independent councillor was branded ‘depraved’ and forced to stand down three months ago after saying ‘disabled children cost too much and should be put down’.
Incredibly, he won back his seat on Thursday – from a Lib Dem. How low can you get?
