Brazen promotion by PM is just pants

THERESA May’s propagandists are putting it about how “thrifty” she is because she’s been wearing the same Amanda Wakeley necklace and bracelet almost twice a month since becoming Prime Minister.

The designer doesn’t come cheap, with the bracelet retailing at £185 and the necklace £245.

Let’s not forget, for that matter, the £995 chocolate leather trousers, also from Wakeley, that May posed in for a photoshoot last year.

Those resulted in Nicky Morgan, the former education secretary, being frozen out of May’s inner circle for daring to suggest they were a bit costly.

Even if Wakeley gives her stuff to May, it seems tacky for the PM to promote her quite so brazenly.

The PM admits to the “receipt of a discount card from Amanda Wakeley, which has the potential to be of registrable value”. The much-loved writer AA Gill’s book Uncle Dysfunctional will be launched at a party in London the day before election day. It will be hosted by his widow, Nicola Formby.

Is Amber Rudd, married to Gill between 1990-95 and the mother of his two children, attending? “She wasn’t invited,” I am told.

AA Gill, who died of cancer last December at the age of 62, didn’t mention her in his will either.