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Anna Mikhailova
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Anna Mikhailova
@AVMikhailova
Political Editor, Times Radio.
Highly commended Political Reporter 2020 Press Gazette
Joined January 2012
- Kirstie Allsopp, daughter of an Eton-educated Baron, tells young people struggling to buy a home to just look in cheaper areas and give up the gym and Netflix She says she gets 'enraged' when young people can't buy their first home, something she did - with family help - aged 21
- Rishi Sunak describes journalist questions about his wife’s earnings as ‘attacks’ But the ministerial code requires ministers to detail their spouse’s business interests - presumably for a reason
- Liz Truss tonight: ‘I’m naturally a thrifty person, I like saving money’ Also Liz Truss: as minister insisted on having a taxpayer-funded £1,308 dinner in a private members club, overruling officials who proposed more normal options
- Christian Wakeford, who has just defected to Labour, is the MP who called Owen Paterson a c*nt to his face
- Kit Malthouse says Rishi Sunak’s green card is a ‘hangover’ from his US days His spokesman last night told the MoS he kept it for ‘travel reasons’ We know he submitted annual US tax returns to maintain it for six years after becoming an MP So which is it?
- EXCL: Jacob Rees-Mogg becomes first Cabinet minister dragged into outside interests row - after not declaring £6m in cheap loans from his Cayman Islands-linked company In tomorrow's Mail on Sunday
- Replying to @AVMikhailovaSetting aside the daughter-of-a-Baron thing, Allsopp says she was earning £11,500 a year and average UK house prices were £51,000 - so about 5 times her salary Today, average house price is close to £260,000 - so about *9 times* average salary (and she still got family help)🤔
- EXCL: Boris Johnson’s senior advisor Eddie Lister owns shares in a company that has won £1m in government and NHS contracts since he joined No 10
- EXC: Sue Gray wants to shut House of Commons bars to rein in wayward MPs Starmer's Chief of Staff's approach to Westminster's drinking culture and its bars is: 'I'd shut all of them', sources told MoS
- All pinged people are equal, but some pinged people are more equal than others
- At the 1922 committee Aaron Bell specifically asked Boris Johnson if the 20 May 2020 'BYOB' garden drinks was a work event Johnson replied it was Police fines for the event - now dropping in inboxes - suggest otherwise
- Talk among MPs of another no confidence letter going in at 5pm 👀 PM’s refusal to withdraw the Jimmy Savile comment apparently the trigger
- Well this is interesting. When I wrote about this in Nov, this is what the Department of Trade press office told me when asked WHY a £2,850-a-year club was used for public-funded dinner: 'It was organised at quite short notice, so the venue itself was chosen due to availability'EXC: Liz Truss overruled officials to demand £1.4K lunch at Tory donor's gentleman's club in Mayfair Officials warned 5 Hertford St was "incredibly expensive" But per emails, she "refused to consider anywhere else" and "explicitly" rejected alternatives thetimes.co.uk/article/liz-tr…
