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Some news from me: I’m delighted and honoured to be made Political Editor @Telegraph from next month.
Very exciting time to be taking the helm of the best lobby team on Fleet Street.
Tony Diver
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- A campaign van has turned up outside Dominic Cummings’ house in Islington and is playing new clips and a video of Boris thanking the public for their sacrifice
- 🚨EXCLUSIVE Number 10 held two boozy parties the night before the Queen mourned Prince Philip alone. Staff drank and at points danced until the early hours of the night of April 16. Hours later, the Queen went to a socially-distanced funeral for Philip.
- I am told that this man having wine and cheese with the PM is Martin Reynolds, Boris Johnson’s Principal Private Secretary. Mr Reynolds appears to be assisting with the investigation into parties in Downing Street last year. He emailed staff about it on Monday.
- A man who gives his name as Ben has turned up at Dominic Cummings’ house. He says: “I was furloughed, I was at home, I was angry, and I wanted to ask him this question.”
- Huge win for ITV as the obligatory ex-politician contestant in the jungle tonight is revealedNEW: President Joe Biden wanders off into the Amazon Rainforest
- Just seen Sue Gray in the queue for Pret. Black Americano. No sugar, no messing around. Ruthless.
- Police have just turned up at Dominic Cummings’ house and knocked on the door. No one in.
00:00 - Replying to @Tony_DiverWe have spoken to eyewitnesses. At a leaving do for a No10 photographer it’s alleged: 🥂Staff partied in the basement of No10, to music DJd by a special adviser. 🥂One broke Wilf Johnson’s swing in the No10 garden. 🥂Another was sent to the Co-op with a suitcase to buy booze.
- Pretty extraordinary article here from Tobias Ellwood, where he argues we should rejoin the single market to ease the cost of living crisis, even if it means accepting EU regs and freedom of movement. Is anyone else in his party going to back this idea?
- The Telegraph has established that Peter Kyle’s attack linking Nigel Farage to Jimmy Savile was cleared in advance by Downing Street:
- Replying to @Tony_DiverThis was the scene in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle the next day. Prince Philip’s funeral was restricted to 30 people, and the PM declined to attend, to make more space for family. The Queen did not participate in the service.
- Sam Tarry tells @BenKentish that he has just taken phone calls from seven union general secretaries that are "absolutely fuming" about his sacking and are now on a "direct collision course with the Labour Party".
