Mims is on to a winner

WHEN Sports Minister Tracey Crouch walked out in a row over ‘crack cocaine’ fixed-odds betting terminals, the Government lost one of its most vocal anti-gambling campaigners. Her lucky replacement Mims Davies is less shy of a flutter – she cleared off her student debts with a bingo win. Eyes down!

NOT taking their seats doesn’t usually stop Sinn Fein MPs from using Commons facilities but the ‘Shinners’ have ditched plans for a Westminster party on December 11 as it clashed with the Brexit vote. ‘Pity,’ sighs a Tory whip. ‘They can’t vote but at least after a few Guinnesses, they’d have p****d off the DUP.’

EX-TORY Minister Mark Garnier’s infamous decision to send his secretary to Soho to buy him sex toys is the joke that keeps on giving. Addressing children’s toy manufacturers on the Commons’ Terrace, Labour MP Neil Coyle quipped: ‘I hope no one attending today has got the wrong end of the stick about the nature of the toys we are talking about.’