Allegra’s the No 10 shrink!

DOWNING STREET is on a charm offensive, inviting Tory MPs for ‘Agony Aunt’ sessions with Allegra Stratton. No 10’s new Press Secretary is holding lengthy calls with backbenchers to address gripes. One MP tells me it was like having a resident shrink – a bit like whip-smart Wendy Rhoades in the hedge-fund TV drama Billions. ‘On the couch with Allegra’, however, is no dominatrix affair but involves working through past trauma at the hands of Dominic Cummings. Separate sessions with new chief of staff Dan Rosenfield are more sober but also have members feeling better loved.