ANDREW PIERCE: Labour’s Angela Rayner remaining red-faced over corporation loss 

One of the to start with Labour luminaries to attack Jeremy Hunt’s Spending plan —sorry, Autumn Assertion — was the deputy chief Angela Rayner.

Fiery Rayner, 42, who a short while ago admitted to receiving into debt to pay back for a £5,600 boob career when she was 30, insisted that Labour could be dependable to search soon after the nation’s funds. But can she be trustworthy to seem just after her own?

In January 2020, she set up a enterprise identified as Angela Rayner Ltd to take care of her thriving campaign to be next-in-command to Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer.

Organizations Home information show Angela Rayner’s (pictured) firm’s property have dropped from £7,024 final 12 months to £558 and, after having into account outgoings, it produced a loss of £161

More than two several years after she secured the selection two task, the company was, right until not long ago, even now up and working but, I can reveal, its balance sheet has slipped into the purple. 

Businesses Household data demonstrate her firm’s belongings have dropped from £7,024 very last year to £558 and, soon after taking into account outgoings, it produced a decline of £161.

Only now has an software been made to wind up Angela Rayner Ltd.

Meanwhile, lest we forget, the country’s financial state was in these kinds of a parlous point out when the very last Labour government still left place of work that the outgoing Main Secretary to the Treasury, Liam Byrne, remaining a be aware for his successor that read: ‘Dear Chief Secretary, I’m frightened that there is no money. Form regards — and great luck!’

Veterans’ minister Johnny Mercer has been mocked on Twitter for piling on the lbs. ‘You’re setting up to search like Nigel Lawson,’ study just one write-up. ‘You will need a excellent tailor, and reduce your energy a little bit.’

Mercer’s wife, Felicity, rushed to his defence. ‘If Twitter experienced a f*** off button, I would push it now.’

But, in 2019, she despaired of getting a fit to suit her spouse. Evidently, he ‘looks down and out’ in them, prompted by his ‘army form, with huge thighs’.

John Main dig at memorial 

To St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge, for a memorial company for the former British ambassador to Washington, Sir Christopher Meyer, who died in July.

In his tribute, Adam Boulton, the previous Sky Information anchor, claimed the late diplomat was a class act as the push secretary through John Major’s troubled premiership in the 1990s. 

Boulton explained: ‘He was known for speaking reality to energy, but he was faithful on and off the document — at times he created the case for the Federal government with more vehemence than John Key.’

Adam Boulton, the former Sky News anchor, said the late Sir Christopher Meyer )pictured was a course act as the push secretary throughout John Major’s troubled premiership in the 1990s

The charge will have stung 1 individual sitting down in the 2nd row — the former Tory PM himself!

Inadequate Liz Truss. She’ll never ever be permitted to overlook the comparison amongst her short-lived premiership and the shelf life of a lettuce. 

Truss is now immortalised in a range of ‘Lettuce rejoice your birthday’ cards, no question dreamt up by some unkind ‘Romainers’.

Will Matt Hancock be crowned the following Elon Musk when he leaves the jungle? When investigating applications like Twitter, the Wall Street Journal alighted on ‘something a very little a lot more niche — the Matt Hancock app’. 

The Journal notes that extra than 243,000 have signed up. The application gives updates on the Ideal Honourable Member for Down Less than and features supporters the opportunity to share their sights. 

When investigating apps like Twitter, the Wall Street Journal alighted on ‘something a small additional niche — the Matt Hancock (pictured) app’

But initiatives to examine additional ended up stymied by the reality that ‘Mr Hancock could not be arrived at for comment’.

A problem that is also shared by his constituents.

Gasps in the Lords when a Lib Dem, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, warned the upper chamber could become ‘unbalanced’. 

He intended in the perception of voting quantities — with a slew of new Tories squeezing the competitors — somewhat than that the Lords have been going round the bend. That transpired several years in the past, absolutely?

There was a extremely particular guest at final week’s Banqueting House reception at Whitehall to launch Lord Ashcroft’s new book on the intelligence corps, In The Shadows. 

He paid out tribute to Betty Webb, 99, one particular of the past surviving Bletchley Park wartime code breakers.

‘It was so secretive I did not even know what was heading on in the home up coming door,’ she said.