AIDES GAVIN A GO TOO

HOW much enfeebled Theresa May’s manipulated by Downing Street aides is evident from a telling exchange in No10.

Gavin Barwell, a Tory appointed chief of staff after losing his Croydon seat, boasted he’s calling the shots.

Conservative MPs complaining Alan Duncan shouldn’t have threatened to ensure the political end of his former boss Boris Johnson over that explosive “suicide vest” attack on May claim the hired help took the decision to give the Foreign Office Minister a free pass. “I decided not to sack him,” declared Barwell of Duncan, I’m told, to the angry incredulity of seething Brextremists invited to a No10 meeting. Alan Duncan European leaders aren’t alone in treating a dissolving Prime Minister without respect. Her party, MPs, Cabinet and now team do it every day.