Planning palaver for canned Kwasi

■ HE HAS already followed her into modelling, and now Damian hurley is joining his mother in the film world. The 20-year-old has just directed a short film, The Boy On The Beach, and its star is… elizabeth hurley.

‘I started making shorts when i was eight, begging my long-suffering family and friends to be in them,’ he says. ‘To make this even more perfect, my crazily talented and insanely kind mother flew out to film.’

PERHAPS there were signs all along that Kwasi Kwarteng’s disastrous mini-Budget would need retrospective planning?

For I can reveal that the former Chancellor had to ask for just that from his local council when he cleaned up brickwork at his new house without securing the necessary approval first.

Kwarteng had to apply to Greenwich council for retrospective permission to tidy the facade of his early Victorian villa, which he and his wife, Harriet, bought for £1.7 million. Two unnamed objectors claimed that a ‘criminal offence’ had taken place as consent from the council had not been sought at the time of the work.

Planners reviewing the request said :‘ Cleaning of historicproperties is not enc ouraged where this is for purely aesthetic reasons, primarily because of the risk of damage to the historic fabric if not carried out by specialists.’

But the authority gave permission for the work, which was lodged under the name of Kwarteng.

■ WHAT did the late Queen think of Phillip schofield, who faced accusations of ‘queue jumping’ with fellow This Morning host holly willoughby after claims they bypassed the 13-hour line for her Majesty’s lying-in-state? Presenter Fern Britton recalls meeting Queen elizabeth in a line-up with schofield. ‘i was standing next to Phil when the Queen came along,’ Britton says. ‘Phil had met her the week before at an event in henley. so he went (bigging himself up), “hello”, and she just went, “hmm” ’. she then moved on to the next person.’