++Westminster wars++

HALF of Brits thought Theresa May should have quit when she became the first Prime Minister in 40 years to lose three votes in one session. Yet still she soldiers on, turning on the Downing Street Christmas lights to the tune of O Come All Ye Faithful.

A more fitting carol, given that so many of

the Tory faithful seem to be abandoning her, would have been In The Bleak Midwinter.

BORIs JOHNsON has apologised for failing to declare £ 50,000 of earnings, as he forgot about them. Hardly a ringing endorsement for a man who wants to be our prime minister, when he considers an amount almost twice the national wage as ‘loose change’.