Boris Johnson is way from the one political determine whose spouse is inflicting him bother.
I can reveal that Metropolis grandee Jeffrey Mountevans, a former Lord Mayor of London, was accused of misconduct for utilizing Parliamentary notepaper to jot down to neighbours in a bitter planning dispute.
However the Swedish-born shipbroker has been cleared by the sleaze watchdog after it emerged that the offender was, in actual fact, his spouse Juliet.
Retired solictor Woman Mountevans, 71, who has performed host to royalty together with the Duchess of Cambridge, wrote the letters to object to a plan to construct homes subsequent to the Hampshire dwelling of her husband's sister-in-law, Johanna. She additionally wrote to the Prime Minister.
The developer, Graham Simms, complained that the letters shouldn't have been written on Home of Lords headed paper.
The 4th Lord Mountevans is a hereditary peer who sits within the Lords. After Simms complained, the Lords Commissioner of Requirements, former Chief Constable of Warwickshire Police Martin Jelley, investigated.
Lord Mountevans, 73, mentioned he knew nothing in regards to the letters and didn't present the stationery - it was a 'relic' that belonged to his late brother. The sleaze watchdog took his explanations at face worth.
Jelley mentioned Lord Mountevans can't be held accountable for 'the misuse of House of Lords stationery', so he's subsequently 'not in breach of the code of conduct'. He requested Lord Mountevans 'to ensure that the remaining House of Lords paper be disposed of so that it cannot be misused'.
Damien Hirst and the artwork of spoiling his birthday lady
Residing with the world's richest artist actually has its perks - particularly when it's your birthday.
Damien Hirst's girlfriend Sophie Cannell has proven off her twenty eighth birthday presents - and there's not a pickled shark in sight.
Former ballerina Sophie, who's 28 years Hirst's junior, obtained two jumbo bottles of Chanel No 5, value £1,740 every. She was additionally given a pair of Hermes purses that price £15,330 and £12,000.
As if that wasn't sufficient designer equipment, she was baked two truffles within the form of luxurious luggage.
Sophie has been going out with the artwork world's former enfant horrible since 2018 and lives in his £36m dwelling in London's Regent's Park. All she wants so as to add to her hoard now's an engagement ring.
No surprise Boris Johnson is reportedly satisfied he may make a fortune if he's pressured out of No 10.
Even Theresa Might, who wasn't identified for her charisma, is now a world attraction. I hear tickets to her dinner on the Melbourne Conference and Exhibition Centre this weekend price £525.
Members of Australia's Liberal Celebration will pay £1,578 for a 'premium' allocation. Earlier than Covid, the previous PM earned greater than £1 million giving speeches.
Women trump us lads within the kitchen, says chef Jamie
As soon as laddish TV star Jamie Oliver isn't any fan of males within the kitchen.
'I just think men are complicated little things, especially when they're cooks,' he declares.
'On a daily basis, I have to fight with my ego and masculinity and try to find my feminine voice.
'I know that sounds a bit weird, but the girls are much better at maternal, nurturing nourishment and I really feel that in the written word.' Including that his favorite cookery books are by girls, Oliver, who's dyslexic, explains that he didn't truly write his first three cookery books, however dictated them.
'I wrote my first three books on a dictaphone,' he says. 'There's no method I may have written or typed them, even at this time. I've written a cookbook a yr for the final 23 years.'
inform our whining MPs, however they now earn lower than some 'downstairs' employees.
One well-heeled household is seeking to splash out £90,000 a yr on a butler - £8,000 greater than an MP's wage.
And the profitable candidate will get a two-bedroom cottage, too. The Jeeves-style flunkey will work in a ten-bed dwelling on a rustic property and be paid the identical wage as a head trainer or chief superintendent within the police.
An advert for the publish, primarily based close to Shaftesbury in Dorset, explains: 'You will be supporting the family with a range of duties, from silver service to valeting.'
PM's brother has rivals on the ropes...
The Johnsons are preventing again! Whereas Boris fends off criticism from his political foes, his half-brother, Max, has been going through opponents within the ring.
The Eton and Oxford-educated financier, 36, who's the youngest of former I'm A Movie star contestant Stanley Johnson's 4 sons, has been practising Thai boxing - a martial artwork and fight sport - in Phuket, Thailand.
'2022, Let's F***ing Go!' Max declares on-line subsequent to this bare-chested {photograph} of him in his shorts.
Married to Brazilian former mannequin Gabriela Maia, Max has lived in China for greater than a decade and runs his personal funding advisory agency in Hong Kong, having beforehand labored for Goldman Sachs.