Mandrake
23 July 2024
Farage is forced to explain his finances
It will be the money the Reform leader isn’t making – every bit as much as the money he is – that could raise eyebrows
Read the full article16 July 2024
Farage backtracks on BBC boycott
Farage approached Laura Kuenssberg’s producers for his appearance on the Sunday morning show
Read the full article09 July 2024
How Farage rakes in his riches
When it comes to the source of his wealth, the Reform leader has not had to be fully forthcoming – until now
Read the full article02 July 2024
Isaac Levido faces the wrath of Downing Street
The Australian strategist has burned through any credit he had with the prime minister
Read the full article25 June 2024
Could Kuenssberg be getting her Sunday morning lie-ins back?
The BBC presenter’s flagship weekend politics show faces a doubtful future
Read the full article18 June 2024
Marshall’s plan for the Telegraph looks increasingly doomed
The GB News co-owner’s hopes of acquiring the newspaper appear a lot more doubtful
Read the full article11 June 2024
Downing Street’s blame game over Sunak’s election gaffes
Isaac Levido, who previously toiled as the strategist to Boris Johnson, is the real author of Rishi Sunak’s misfortune
Read the full article04 June 2024
Did the BBC predict Farage’s U-turn announcement?
Farage wouldn’t have been happy surrendering his seat on the Question Time leaders’ special to Richard Tice
Read the full article28 May 2024
Mordaunt eyes up Tory leadership
Mandrake has been informed she has already attracted serious financial backing
Read the full article21 May 2024
Truss’s delusional memoir fails to ‘relaunch’ her career
There’s no wonder only Lord Ashcroft’s Biteback publishing outfit was prepared to pick up the rights to Ten Years to Save the West
Read the full article14 May 2024
When will Sunak stop his dithering over a general election date?
Mandrake hears that the new favoured day is November 21
Read the full article07 May 2024
Murdoch’s own Watergate
The latest scandals and gossip from Westminster and Fleet Street
Read the full article30 April 2024
The trouble brewing at LBC
Was presenter Sangita Myska suspended for her comments on Israel?
Read the full article23 April 2024
The circles the Spectator runs in
During Boris Johnson’s time as editor, it became known as the ‘Sextator’ because of the lifestyles of his staff
Read the full article16 April 2024
Boris Johnson’s cold feet over his GB News show
The former PM is having doubts about being associated with the station, one insider tells Mandrake
Read the full article09 April 2024
Taxpayers foot the bill of Shapps’ MoD extravagance
The defence secretary has splashed out £192,000 on entertainment and hospitality in his first six months in office
Read the full article02 April 2024
Is an early general election on the way?
Rishi Sunak, for all his public protestations, is pessimistic about whether he will be able to hang on until June
Read the full article19 March 2024
Mail hails Mordaunt as the Tories’ last chance
The change of heart is said to have stuck in the craw of editor-in-chief Paul Dacre
Read the full article12 March 2024
The plot to reinstate Boris Johnson as prime minister
Johnson superfan and “mad redhead” Lady Judith McAlpine has emerged as the instigator of the madcap scheme
Read the full article05 March 2024
Was the Mail behind Sunak’s night-time address?
The prime minister’s speech to the nation followed a meeting with the paper’s editor-in-chief
Read the full article27 February 2024
RedBird IMI’s Telegraph bid is a headache for Sunak
He may make it Labour’s problem when they come into office
Read the full article20 February 2024
Boris continues to be bankrolled
The former prime minister may be making millions now he’s left office, but he still can’t resist a freebie holiday
Read the full article13 February 2024
Sunak ponders Johnson’s return to frontline politics
Mandrake hears the former prime minister has named his price; a life peerage
Read the full article06 February 2024
Sir Ed Davey breaks his silence over the Post Office scandal
Davey is desperately trying to fight off allegations of being “the invisible man”
Read the full article30 January 2024
Murdoch touts Kemi Badenoch as next Tory leader
The Sun ran an article under a headline championing the business secretary as the ‘new Mrs T’
Read the full article23 January 2024
David Cameron’s having second thoughts
The former prime minister’s return to frontline politics hasn’t gone quite as he expected
Read the full article16 January 2024
George Osborne hunts for a director
Mandrake hears the British Museum is struggling to find a suitable candidate for the role
Read the full article09 January 2024
Watch out, Dominic Cummings is on manoeuvres
Mandrake hears that he’s a little short of cash these days...
Read the full article02 January 2024
Sunak’s personal battle over Ukraine
Ultimately, the prime minister knows which side his bread is buttered
Read the full article22 December 2023
Mail ‘in bid to poach Telegraph editor’
Chris Evans may swap one right-wing title for another
Read the full article22 December 2023
Is Boris Johnson plotting a comeback in 2024?
Theresa May and David Cameron already have plans to stop him
Read the full article18 December 2023
How Michelle Mone tried to silence the New European
The lying baroness’s web of deceit has been revealed after her disastrous Laura Kuenssberg interview
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