WINE FOR A WHINE . . .

IN THe smart private members’ club 5 HertfordStreet, ex-Chancellors Nadhim Zahawi and Kwasi Kwarteng were locked in deep conversation.

Over an expensive bottle of claret, they were overheardswapping notes on how they were sacked. Zahawi was booted out on the telephone by rishi Sunak in January over his tax affairs, Kwarteng by Liz Truss after he cut short a trip to the IMF (International Monetary Fund) in Washington in a doomed effort to save her short-lived premiership. ‘Despite the claret, neither of them looked happy,’ I was told.