Night of property deals and flat bubbly

CUTTING through Mayfair last night between parties, The Londoner strolled past 5 Hertford Street. “How’s it going in there?” we asked a charming toff who was standing outside with his labrador. “Well, Nick Candy (pictured) is presiding over a table of property magnates,” he grinned. “The Irish aristocrats are muttering in a corner, a lot of posh Scottish gentlemen are looking fairly glum and a cavalcade of Etonian nom-doms are knocking around, with a fleet of limousines waiting to whisk them off if the results start looking bad for them.” Sadly, no such luck.

Meanwhile, over at the Society Club in the back streets of Soho, it was drinks for the burgeoning Women’s

THE Londoner has been trying to book a table at Kitty Fisher’s for months, and it turns out last night was our chance. A favourite of David and Samantha Cameron, whose brother-in-law Tom Mullion runs front-of-house, it’s Mayfair’s most talked about hotspot, and yesterday it tweeted to say it had a space. Did David Cameron remember he had other plans and make a hasty cancellation? Equality Party (WEP), which Sandi Toskvig has left Radio 4’s News Quiz to help bring to life for the 2020 election. Sipping cocktails at the party were the founder of the WEP Catherine Mayer, broadcaster Emma Barnett and FGM campaigner Nimco Ali. Then it was down to Villandry in St James’s, an old-school Labour hangout where Roland Rudd, businessman, pro-euro campaigner and adviser to Ed Miliband, was throwing a party for the great and good. But there was little for London’s high-flying Leftwingers to be happy about, except for one bright moment. Amber Rudd, Roland’s Tory sister, held her seat in Hastings and Rye. Otherwise, the champagne soon fell flat.

BLESSED silence of the day: Russell Brand, who couldn’t stop talking (or changing his mind) in the runup to the election, has failed to make a single remark about the results.