Westminster wars

THe new Cabinet is a victory for the bottle blondes, and I don’t just mean Boris! Halfwoman, half- hairdo esther McVey’s blowdry would have pierced a hole in the ozone layer. Yet that unforgiving overhead shot at the Despatch Box revealed Boris’s fastexpanding bald patch. At this rate, he will resemble his hero Winston Churchill before we leave the eU. HIS sacking of wellrespected Penny Mordaunt as Defence Secretary for backing Jeremy Hunt revealed some little known traits of our PM: that he is thin-skinned, petty — and demands utter loyalty. Something, sadly, he never offered the harem of women in his life.

JeReMY HUNT’S parting shot after being fired was a corker: ‘I have decided now is the time for the biggest challenge of all — to be a good dad.’