How she ‘demanded a £538 gold Apple iPad’

CARRIE’S six months working as Sajid Javid’s adviser in the department for communities and local government is little remembered. However, one source says she ‘spent the whole time trying to get the department to buy her a gold-coloured iPad’.

The purchase, at public expense, was ‘eventually approved by email from the secretary of state’s private office’, the source said, even though Apple products are understood to have been incompatible with the department’s network. A UK Freedom of Information request about the purchase was not answered for three months instead of the usual 20 working days. The delay was attributed to ‘public interest’ reasons.

The response confirmed that ‘one iPad with case was purchased for a special adviser at a price of £538’. The recipient was not named.

Our mock-up, right, shows how Carrie might have used a gold-coloured iPad.