Best friend got plum job

CARRIE’S critics say the appointment of her best friend Nimco Ali to a government job shows her ‘undue’ influence in No 10.

It emerged last year that Ms Ali, left with Carrie, was given a role as a Home Office adviser on tackling violence against women, without the post being advertised. The two-day-amonth job paid £350 a day.

The move sparked claims that the job may have been created for Ms Ali, 38, a campaigner against female genital mutilation. She is also godmother to Wilfred, Miss Symonds’ son with the Prime Minister.

However, Ms Ali, who came to Britain as a refuge from Somalia when she was four, was Boris’s friend first – the pair worked together when he was London Mayor. She has also praised the PM as a ‘real feminist’.

The Home Office has defended her recruitment as ‘appropriate for shortterm advisory roles… to champion a specific subject’.