STOP THE PLOTS, GROWLS FERRARI

AT THE tory parliamentary party dinner at the Londoner hotel last week, rishi Sunak appeared on stage to introduce a surprise guest: Nick Ferrari, the formidable LBC breakfast show presenter.

he delivered some home truths to the audience, which included tory MPs and the entire Cabinet. Ferrari told them: ‘my listeners would tell you, this isn’t an episode of the traitors. they are expecting you to do the job they pay you for — govern. You are suffering death by 1,000 leaks.

‘Never mind Stop the Boats. Stop the scheming. Stop the WhatsApping, stop the plotting.’

Sound advice which tory MPs will ignore at their peril.

■ After the revelation that rishi Sunak fasts every week for 36 hours from 5pm on Sunday to dawn on tuesday, one tory MP was overheard saying: ‘Let’s hope russia doesn’t invade any more countries on a Monday when the PM’s blood glucose levels are low.’

■ AFTER her bruising appearance at the Covid Inquiry last week, the former Scottish first Minister Nicola Sturgeon has revealed her favourite non-fiction book. Written by the Austrian Stefan Zweig, it is a sweeping history of europe covering World War I and the rise of Hitler. It’s title? the World Of Yesterday — a fitting epitaph for her political career.

■ FORMER Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie wasn’t impressed by the disgraced ex-SNP leader’s blubbering while giving evidence. ‘Suspect they were Jockodile tears.’

■ IS ARCH-Remainer Olly Robbins, once the UK’s top Brexit adviser under Theresa May, about to return to Whitehall? He’s being tipped for the post of Cabinet Secretary in a Sir Keir Starmer Labour government. It would make Robbins, who is now in the private sector, the most powerful civil servant in the land — and put him in an ideal position to try to engineer closer links to his beloved EU.