Moggy hits out at Davos man... including his pal

ON TUESDAY we were treated to the launch of the Liz Truss-led group of ‘Popular Conservatives’ – or PopCons – who aim to ‘excite the public’ by offering an alternative to the perceived weakness of Rishi Sunak’s Government.

Among the attendees was Somerset MP and exBrexit Opportunities Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg, who proudly proclaimed in a speech that ‘the age of Davos man is over’.

He was referring to the gathering of the financial and political elite at the World Economic Forum, held in the Swiss ski destination last month.

But PopCon man might want to pass on his musings to Lord Dominic Johnson, the Investment Minister with whom he cofounded hedge fund Somerset Capital in 2007.

His lordship spent quite a lot of time at this year’s Davos gathering, going so far as to say the event had provided ‘terrific opportunities’ to trumpet the UK’s technological and investment credentials.

With friends like that...

GOOD news (at last) for Michelle Mone, the beleaguered lingerie queen also known as ‘Baroness Bra’.

There were fears that a horse the peer gave her husband Doug Barrowman as a wedding present might not run in the Grand National due to a £75million court order freezing their assets.

This is part of a criminal investigation into alleged PPE fraud in the pandemic, which they deny.

The full list of those frozen assets has now been made public and there’s no mention of Monbeg Genius, the nag in question.

That means the 14-1 fancy is free to run at Aintree for the first prize of £500,000. Giddy-up!