PLATELL’S PEOPLE: I’ve bet the cost of a designer bag that the Prime Minister will survive
PLATELL’S PEOPLE: I’ve bet the cost of a designer bag that the Prime Minister will survive
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Until this week, very few people outside the Westminster Bubble had heard of Munira Mirza.
But as one of Boris Johnson‘s most trusted advisers, she worked with him for 14 years: first when he was London Mayor, then PM. Throughout, she kept out of the limelight, offering her wise counsel in private.
Suddenly, though, this 43-year-old loyalist dramatically quit in high dudgeon. But rather than going quietly, the petite assassin released a venomous resignation letter which brutally spelt out why she felt she could no longer work for a man who’d made a ‘scurrilous accusation’ against Sir Keir Starmer.
A party leader verbally attacking his rival in the bear pit of the Commons? Whatever next?
True, the Labour leader wasn’t personally responsible for ‘failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile’ when he ran the Crown Prosecution Service, as Boris had said in his jibe. But he had apologised for the mistakes that happened on his watch.
Until this week, very few people outside the Westminster Bubble had heard of Munira Mirza
Like Munira Mirza, I was once a trusted political adviser — to William Hague when he was Opposition Leader. I knew there was a code of honour: I served and I was loyal.
Mirza has scorned that code like that serial rat Dominic Cummings. She’s a close friend of Rishi Sunak, and her bombshell resignation became public just an hour before the Chancellor appeared, bedecked by Union Flags, at a Downing Street press conference. For his part, Sunak stoked the flames, saying of the Savile taunt: ‘I wouldn’t have said that.’
So, one knife planted into Boris’s shoulder blades by Mirza. A second by Sunak. To me, this smacks of an amateurish plot to dethrone the country’s elected Prime Minister. However, I believe Sunak and Mirza have badly miscalculated.
Mirza has scorned that code like that serial rat Dominic Cummings. She’s a close friend of Rishi Sunak, and her bombshell resignation became public just an hour before the Chancellor appeared, bedecked by Union Flags, at a Downing Street press conference
Nothing unites even disgruntled Tory MPs more than seeing off naked ambition and disloyalty from others. Sunak versus Starmer at the next general election? It would be like two ironing boards fighting it out.
Beleaguered Boris has one get-out-of-jail-free card left. It’s to overrule his treacherous next-door neighbour and scrap the hated National Insurance rise.
Pundits say the PM has a 50/50 chance of surviving. Me? I’m so confident Boris will win the next general election that I’ve laid a large bet — the cost of a designer handbag — on it.
Sunak versus Starmer at the next general election? It would be like two ironing boards fighting it out
As U.S. Special Forces approached the Syrian hideout of ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, he blew up himself and his entire family. What kind of man murders his own children? One who took great delight in murdering ours.
Soft side of Ricky
The German Shepherd that plays Brandy in Ricky Gervais’s Netflix comedy After Life has her own fan base, thanks to her heart-warming bond with Gervais’s character, widower Tony.
I’m told by a friend that the actor, who adores animals, will never own a dog as he could never cope with the pain of the pet dying.
What a lovely softie he turns out to be.
The German Shepherd that plays Brandy in Ricky Gervais’s Netflix comedy After Life has her own fan base, thanks to her heart-warming bond with Gervais’s character, widower Tony
Scrum off it Kate, they’re girls
The sin of envy consumed me for a moment when I saw the pictures of Kate hoisted aloft by rugby players — until I realised the lifters were women. If I’d been the Duchess, I’d much have preferred to be grabbed by Twickenham gods Maro Itoje and George Ford.
The sin of envy consumed me for a moment when I saw the pictures of Kate hoisted aloft by rugby players — until I realised the lifters were women
Sneer thee not at Team GB’s curling stars, Bruce Mouat and Jenn Dodds. Wielding their brooms at the Winter Olympics, they’ve only lost one game. Three cheers for the Torvill and Dean of curling. Here’s hoping they ‘sweep’ their way to a gold medal.
BBC News has been running several interviews with families who say they have to choose between heating and eating to survive.
This is a delicate issue but I would be more convinced if some of the interviewees did not seem to have a Body Mass Index of more than 30.
Kirsten’s cover-up fails
While bleating about regretting baring her breasts for the 2006 film Marie Antoinette, Kirsten Dunst is overlooked again by the Baftas, this time for her role in The Power Of The Dog, in which she is fully clothed. With or without her kit, I’m guessing even the achingly pro-woman Bafta judges can tell the difference between an abundance of beauty and flimsy talent when they see it.
While bleating about regretting baring her breasts for the 2006 film Marie Antoinette, Kirsten Dunst is overlooked again by the Baftas, this time for her role in The Power Of The Dog, in which she is fully clothed
As the Sex And The City sequel sinks to a sorry conclusion, we fans of the original show are left wondering: ‘Where was all the sex?’
Carrie kisses a bloke twice. Miranda takes up with the butch, non-binary Che. The finale sees Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie in this hideous orange ballgown, standing on a Paris bridge and scattering Mr Big’s ashes into the Seine.
Was I the only one hoping she’d chuck herself in as well?
Prince of Pretentiousness
In his first public appearance for many months, Prince Harry burbles a load of psychobabble, telling the world he’s being ‘schooled by the universe’ and declaring that a positive attitude is a ‘superpower’. The only way to find peace, adds the Prince of Pretentiousness, is through ‘inner work’.
Just as well, as Harry isn’t doing much work out there in the real world.
In his first public appearance for many months, Prince Harry burbles a load of psychobabble, telling the world he’s being ‘schooled by the universe’ and declaring that a positive attitude is a ‘superpower’
Westminster Wars
Boris Johnson doesn’t just need to sort out his Government: the man’s wardrobe needs urgent attention. Alongside Ukraine’s smartly dressed president this week, Bojo’s shirt was barely tucked in and his tie was askew and as long as Trump’s. Yes, he’s got a lot to worry about, but is it too much to ask him to look in the mirror?Michael Gove sets out his ’12 national missions’ for levelling up: a checklist of flimsy promises with no new money to pay for them. Twelve missions? Moses only needed ten — and one of those was: ‘Thou shall not bear false witness.’Part of Gove’s plan to fight obesity in poor regions is for doctors to prescribe vouchers for fruit and veg. Sadly, the only veg most overweight kids see is the gherkin they bin from their 540-calorie, 25g of fat Big Mac.
Boris Johnson doesn’t just need to sort out his Government: the man’s wardrobe needs urgent attention
The revolting ‘beat bobbies’
The most chilling WhatsApp message shared by several Met Police officers who were engaged in disgusting online behaviour was: ‘You ever slapped your missus? Knock a bird about and she will love you . . . They are biologically programmed to like that s***.’ God help any woman seeking help from such police after being beaten up or raped.
We argued hard for Afghans who helped British soldiers to be given safe passage to Britain. But one former translator Bahawar Mayar is not satisfied. He, his wife and six children are living in a central London hotel, yet Mayar moans ‘our lives are on hold’ until they learn where the Government will settle them. ‘We can’t make plans, we can’t build for the future,’ he complains. If we’d left the Mayar family in Kabul, they wouldn’t have a future. What’s the Dari for ‘ingrate’?
Researchers have found that some men really are sex addicts. Apparently, it’s down to an excess of the ‘cuddle hormone’ oxytocin. Don’t make me laugh: if it was just cuddles that sex addicts strayed for, the divorce courts would be out of business.
