Ephraim Hardcastle
BORIS’S indiscreet disclosure of his audience with the Queen will have set her wondering what she can and can’t say to the PM in future. He’s not the first to betray a royal confidence. Nick Clegg blames Michael Gove for revealing her view on Brexit and David Cameron described her purring down the phone after the failure of the Scottish independence ballot. At future audiences Boris may encounter a more sphinx-like monarch.
OLD Etonian Boris’s elevation to PM should entitle the boys of his alma mater to a day’s holiday. They’re unlikely to get it – and not just because of the summer holidays. When old boy David Cameron was elected in May 2010, Eton Provost William Waldegrave ruled against, feeling that ‘the sight of Etonians celebrating Mr Cameron’s election would have done the new PM no good at all’.
PRIME Ministerial arm candy Carrie Symonds’s Ghost dress earns plaudits from Dragons’ Den star Touker Suleyman, who Instagrams: ‘Thank you Carrie for wearing this wonderful dress from this British iconic brand.’ Guess who owns Ghost? Step forward Touker!
APROPOS of Carrie, her Facebook ‘likes’ include David Cameron, Dominic Raab, Zac Goldsmith, Dan Hannan, John Whittingdale, Ed Vaizey, Charlie Elphicke, Anthony Scaramucci and, unsurprisingly, Boris.
PEAKY Blinders star Cillian Murphy will not thank cast member Helen McCrory, pictured, for highlighting his nicotine addiction. Explaining how as a non-smoker she has to inhale in the ITV hit series, she adds: ‘Luckily, I don’t find it addictive. One of the team counted the amount of cigarettes Cillian Murphy smoked in the last series, and it amounted to 1,000!’
SIR Cameron Mackintosh wants to build a two-storey, five-bedroom home atop his West End Novello Theatre based on the original design for Welsh-born composer Ivor Novello’s apartment. Downstairs, Cameron’s show Mamma Mia! continues to pack them in. What will he do about the din? ‘Acoustically sealed glazing,’ he advises.
AFTER being called a ‘washed-up psycho’ by Donald Trump, Bette Midler refers to the forthcoming Cats movie starring Judi Dench, tweeting: ‘Listen, even if the whole thing was just Dame Judi coughing up a hairball, it would STILL be better than watching AMERICA trying to hack out the slimy hairball in the Oval Office.’ Get off the fence, Bette!
AS he dismissed Theresa May’s Cabinet, did Boris ponder on Harold Macmillan’s 1962 Night of the Long Knives remark following lord chancellor Lord Kilmuir’s complaint that he’d been ‘sacked with less notice than I’d give to a cook’? Macmillan replied: ‘Good cooks are hard to
Email: john.mcentee@dailymail.co.uk