Westminster Wars

IS THE PM channelling his inner Lady T, bullishly leading the charge against Putin’s threat to the Ukraine? In 1982, Thatcher was behind in the polls with MPs plotting to topple her. She got into a tank, recaptured the Falklands and, a year later, won a landslide victory and became the Iron Lady.

VISITORS to Barnard Castle are up 20 per cent since Dominic Cummings drove there to ‘check his eyesight’ during the first lockdown. How long before Specsavers set up a shop in the castle grounds?

LEADERSHIP hopeful Liz Truss justifies her £500,000 flight to Australia on a private Government plane on the grounds it was her right as Foreign Secretary and she needed to have meetings with her team. Given the cost of a First Class ticket to Sydney is £5,637, to justify that she’d have to have had nearly 100 staff on board. A First Class error, Liz.