The Mail on Sunday

Bojo’s safety curtain

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NO10’s frantic efforts to gag Boris Johnson on Brexit extend to physically restrainin­g him when required. On the flight out with Theresa May to last week’s UN summit in New York, the curtain separating Ministers from press parted, to reveal a smiling Foreign Secretary seemingly set on sharing his thoughts with reporters. An alert No10 aide spotted the danger and yanked him back behind the screen. Sadly for the Bojo restraint unit, he has since slipped the leash and predicted Mrs May will fire the Brexit starting gun early next year.

VIEWERS of the late-night BBC1 politics show This Week were horrified to see sacked Tory Arts Minister Ed Vaizey appear with shirt unbuttoned to reveal his hairy chest, then with it done up and then all open again medallion-man style. Vaizey confesses: ‘I adopted the strategy to maintain the frenzy on Twitter.’ To think Cameron made him a privy counsellor…

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