ADONIS, A NERDISH NIGHTMARE

Former Labour Cabinet minister Lord Adonis quit his job as government infrastructure tsar in protest at Brexit, which he is determined to ‘sabotage’.

the tories were livid at the way he milked the issue for maximum personal publicity. But it seems that his former Labour colleagues were not exactly fans of the highhanded Adonis either.

In tom Bower’s excellent book, IN 2015, Comrade Corbyn poured scorn on the annual get-together of the great and not-so-good at Davos. He wrote witheringly: ‘The illnamed World Economic Forum is gathering once again in Davos where hordes of delegates are invited to attend, dominated by kings, princes, presidents, prime ministers and large corporations.’ To that list, Jezza can add his own shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, who is attending for the first time. Broken Vows: tony Blair — the tragedy of Power, there is a telling account of working with Adonis in the Labour government.

estelle morris, when she was Labour’s education secretary, is quoted saying: ‘Andrew is as bright as a button. But a nightmare to work with.’

many people in the Labour Party disliked him as a ‘rightwing self-aggrandising nerd’. AS BRITAIN battles its way through a flu crisis, a Mail reader has coincidentally sent me a letter they received from the NHS bowel cancer screening service warning of possible delays. On the reverse side were translations in Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Gujarati, Hindi, Polish, Punjabi, Somali, Turkish and Urdu. Will the Left ever accept that mass immigration is one of the problems putting pressure on NHS resources?