++ Westminster Wars ++

in THE six months running up to our revised scheduled exit from the Eu, MPs will have spent half that time on holiday, including an extra 11day Whitsun recess they’ve just been given. Only the Tories will be working flat out — on how to get rid of Theresa May.

SINCE 2016, two Tory PMs and two Defence Secretaries have vowed to end the witch-hunt of Armed Forces veterans. Now Penny Mordaunt, declares it is her priority as the new Defence Secretary. Good intentions but, once again, I fear it’s just weasel words.

AMBITIOUS Amber rudd tells her leadership rivals to stop parading their wives in their campaigns. Chief rival Boris Johnson won’t worry — he hasn’t got a wife to parade any more. And his squeeze Carrie Symonds, 30, is hardly a vote winner in Tory heartlands, engagement ring or not.