How Alex left Ted red-faced

SIR ALEX ALLAN, who resigned as Boris Johnson’s ministerial standards adviser when the PM refused to sack Home Secretary Priti Patel over bullying allegations, has form for embarrassing Tory chiefs.

When Ted Heath was leader in 1966, he decided to court the youth vote by being photographed on a skateboard.

Alex, then 15, whose father Robert was Heath’s chief of staff, duly supplied a skateboard. The result? Heath could not have looked more awkward if he’d turned up at Prime Minister’s Questions on a unicycle.