On the cards
Mar 07, 2021
4 minutes
JANE CLIFTON
Our politics verged on the loopy this week, with the Prime Minister having a public “’tis-’tisn’t” barney with a teenager – Covid Case L – about why she went to KFC, but this episode seems quite august alongside what’s been in the UK papers.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Covid turbulence has taken a bizarre turn following his dung-out of a particularly macho band of advisers. Disgruntled MPs have been blaming his fiancee, Carrie Symonds, and even blackguarding the couple’s pup, Dilyn.
In a campaign of “briefings” against Symonds, the PM’s rivals have accused her of having too much “woke” power over him and that, furthermore,
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