Mandrake
14 February 2023
Boris Johnson’s covert lunch operation
This week's gossip and scandals in Westminster and the media brought to you by MANDRAKE
Read the full article13 February 2023
Michael Gove’s Brexit U-turn
At a “secret” meeting over the weekend, the Levelling Up Secretary was "very honest" about the shortcomings of Brexit
Read the full article07 February 2023
Where are Boris Johnson’s resignation honours?
This week's gossip and scandals in Westminster and the media brought to you by MANDRAKE
Read the full article31 January 2023
Has Boris Johnson pulled the wool over Murdoch’s eyes?
This week's gossip and scandals in Westminster and the media brought to you by MANDRAKE
Read the full article25 January 2023
The European Movement looks for a new chair
The pro-rejoin group is seeking a successor to Andrew Adonis
Read the full article24 January 2023
How Boris Johnson scored his ‘astronomical’ memoir deal
This week's gossip and scandals in Westminster and the media brought to you by MANDRAKE
Read the full article17 January 2023
Will King Charles look favourably on Liz Truss?
This week's gossip and scandals in Westminster and the media brought to you by MANDRAKE
Read the full article10 January 2023
Where Dido Harding’s loyalties lie
This week's gossip and scandals in Westminster and the media brought to you by MANDRAKE
Read the full article05 January 2023
Geordie Greig returns to the field of battle
The former Mail boss's appointment as the Independent's editor-in-chief is good news for journalism
Read the full article03 January 2023
Mone’s problems are far from over
This week's gossip and scandals in Westminster and the media brought to you by MANDRAKE
Read the full article19 December 2022
Johnson hoping a little local difficulty will return him to No 10
The former prime minister is plotting his return to power after May's local elections
Read the full article13 December 2022
Why Wes Streeting stopped digging
Earlier this year, MANDRAKE advised the shadow health secretary to pose some questions in the Commons about what a drain on resources Genomics England was. Yet, he never asked a single question
Read the full article06 December 2022
The mission to distance Gove from Mone
This week's gossip and scandals in Westminster and the media brought to you by MANDRAKE
Read the full article29 November 2022
Don’t be lulled into a false sense of security, Rishi
This week's gossip and scandals in Westminster and the media brought to you by MANDRAKE
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Hunt’s secret, Gove takes things to a new level and will a Truss biography trump the charts?
This week's gossip and scandals in Westminster and the media brought to you by MANDRAKE
Read the full article16 November 2022
Carrie’s staying loyal, Murdoch lobs a non-dom grenade, and who’s Jacob Rees-Mogg’s idol?
This week's gossip and scandals in Westminster and the media brought to you by MANDRAKE
Read the full article15 November 2022
Hancock’s jungle jaunt will cost him his career
Margaret Thatcher would not have made much of the former health secretary's claim to be a celebrity
Read the full article07 November 2022
A new project for Ben Elliot, Allister Heath is in low spirits and Owen Jones’s choice words
This week's gossip and scandals in Westminster and the media brought to you by MANDRAKE
Read the full article07 November 2022
Does Labour have designs on Conor Burns?
Burns is seen as making the true blue Tory heartland seat look “eminently winnable” for Labour
Read the full article07 November 2022
Sir Gavin Williamson feels he deserves more status
The former defence and education secretary feels he's never been awarded the rank he deserves
Read the full article01 November 2022
Has Lord Rothermere got his priorities straight?
Only recently The Daily Mail aggressively pushed for Liz Truss as leader one day and then delighted in her downfall the next
Read the full article01 November 2022
The Downing Street flat proves good for business
The publicity Lulu Lytle gained by being Boris and Carrie Johnson's interior designer has been good for business
Read the full article31 October 2022
Meet Rishi Sunak’s fabulously wealthy new policy chief
Eleanor Shawcross is married to the Next boss Lord Wolfson, whose personal fortune is estimated to run into hundreds of millions
Read the full article31 October 2022
Did Lord Snooty urge Johnson to sit out Tory race?
Privately and publicly, Charles Moore told his fellow Old Etonian that he should “sit this one out”
Read the full article31 October 2022
Boris Johnson to write a biography of his hero: himself
The former prime minister still hasn't finished his biography of Shakespeare but he's found a more interesting subject
Read the full article25 October 2022
How Penny Mordaunt got her nickname
Around the corridors of power, Mordaunt is known as "the admiral"
Read the full article25 October 2022
Johnson’s u-turn sends his supporters spinning
The former prime minister marched his backers to the top of the hill - and left them to make their own way back down
Read the full article25 October 2022
Hancock hoping for a comeback
The former health secretary has struggled to make big bucks outside of politics
Read the full article25 October 2022
Paul Dacre is determined to get his peerage
The rejected Mail man is campaigning hard for a place on Parliament's red benches
Read the full article24 October 2022
Who were Boris’s backers?
Mandrake challenges Sir James Duddridge to now name the 100 fellow Tory MPs he claimed backed the former prime minister's return
Read the full article24 October 2022
The Truss tat left to flog
Liz Truss leaves behind a legacy of thousands of unsold mugs all emblazoned with the words: “In Liz we Truss”
Read the full article18 October 2022
Hadley Freeman leaves the Guardian
One insider tells MANDRAKE that there is more to her departure than meets the eye
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