SHREK SEQUEL FOR DIVA OF RIGA?

BaIBa Braze, the outgoing Latvian ambassador to the uk, is taking up a new role at Nato. Her chief responsibility will be public diplomacy, which might prove very testing.

after all, the so called ‘Diva of riga’ once referred to newly elected prime Minister Boris

Johnson as Shrek and said that Britain would be a ‘Third World nation’ after it left the eu.

She might change her tune at Nato HQ. Britain is one of only nine countries — out of 30 member states — that honour the Nato commitment to spend two per cent of GDp on defence.

HealtH minister Nadine Dorries on the lockdown: ‘Folk work longer hours and harder but are happier. Better for the environment. enables keeping pets, reduces stress, saves money. We should have trusted people long ago. Nine to five M-F in an office block is so last century.’

Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle insists that Mps taking part in prime Minister’s Questions by video link must wear a jacket and tie. It’s just as well Wansbeck Labour Mp Ian Lavery didn’t catch the Speaker’s eye. While observing the dress code on top, he’s confided that if he’d risen to speak, it’s his choice of boxer shorts we’d have been treated to.

FORMER Tory Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken has been reflecting on his first day in Belmarsh prison after being jailed for perjury 20 years ago. Now a Church of England deacon and prison chaplain, Aitken then had to see the prison psychiatrist. ‘He must have been the only man in the country who was unaware I’d been on every front page and led the news bulletins,’ he said. The shrink asked Aitken, who got an 18-month jail sentence: ‘Does anyone other than your next of kin know you are in prison?’ To which Aitken smiled wryly, replying: ‘Between 15 to 20 million people.’