Now-you-see-him-now-you-don’t immigration minister Robert Jenrick clarions his passion for immigration curbs.
Could this be the same Tory politician who wrote in The Art Newspaper encouraging hundreds of foreign artists, dancers and writers to come to Britain using the little-known Home Office scheme, the Global Talent visa?
Already this year about 700 from 60 different countries including China, the US, Nigeria and Russia have taken it up.
‘We are encouraging the best and brightest to Britain,’ declared Rob, before packing his ministerial sandwiches in a road map.
Robert Jenrick (pictured) once encouraged hundreds of foreign artists, dancers and writers to come to Britain, but he now clarions his passion for immigration curbs
BBC Today presenter Amol Rajan was forced into an apology yesterday over new corporation chairman Samir Shah, whom he had earlier said would be the first BBC boss from an ethnic minority.
‘I was wrong as his predecessor as chairman, Richard Sharp, was of Jewish heritage,’ said Rajan. Wrong again, Amol.
1980s chairman Stuart Young was an active and ardent Zionist, who had even volunteered for the Israeli Army during the 1967 Six Day War.
Too late for a mea culpa; Stuart died aged 52 in 1986.
Defending rugby captain Owen Farrell’s decision to take a break from international duty after being targeted with social media abuse, former England star Mike Tindall tells BBC Breakfast: ‘What he went through in that World Cup is completely unjustified.’
Mike, husband of Princess Anne’s daughter Zara, should know. During England’s 2011 campaign in New Zealand, then-captain Tindall was memorably lambasted when it emerged he and fellow players attended a raucous ‘dwarf-tossing’ event at a Queenstown nightclub.
Tindall has always maintained: ‘Not one player threw a dwarf.’
Former rugby star Mike Tindall (pictured with wife Zara Tindall) has defended England captain Owen Farrell’s decision to take a break from international duty
Locked in a battle with old colleague Emily Maitlis – the pair are promoting rival screen dramas about Prince Andrew’s car-crash interview – glamorous former Newsnight producer Sam McAlister hits back at sartorial critics.
Clad in trademark leopard-print boots and tight-fitting trousers, Sam now defiantly announces: ‘I’ve often been told I should dress more conservatively. No thanks.’
Isn’t McAlister flattered having blonde bombshell Billie Piper portraying her in the upcoming Netflix movie?
Jeanette Winterson’s enthusiasm for festive lights prompts her to ‘mega-watt her fence’, making her Cotswold home ‘look like a carvery’.
‘I love Christmas because as a child those were the only 12 days of the year when my mother was happy’, she tells The New Statesman, describing the ‘terrifying’ Bakelite plugs and unearthed cloth-wrapped wiring of her mother’s illuminations.
She adds: ‘One year the lights electrocuted the cat.’
Reportedly dating the Queen’s ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles, presenter Anne Robinson isn’t known to hold back regarding royal controversies.
Making fun of the Duchess of Sussex’s marriage to Harry during a TV appearance, Anne mischievously mused: ‘I’m wondering whether Meghan will find another step up?’
She unflatteringly added: ‘Meghan is what I call, “Last in the queue, first on the bus.”‘
Reportedly dating the Queen’s ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles, presenter Anne Robinson (pictured) isn’t known to hold back regarding royal controversies
