How Dave mixed it with Merkel
David Cameron joked privately how he gave short shrift to German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a recent meeting when she berated him for quitting the Right-of-centre, fanatically pro-EU European People's Party in Brussels.
'Come off it, Angela,' he told her, 'Tony Blair wasn't in the EPP and you never complained about that.'
David Cameron had private joke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel
- Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve has been advised to wear a crash helmet when he joins the Tory campaign for the forthcoming Glenrothes by-election in Scotland. While delivering leaflets in a tower block in the Glasgow East by-election in July, he had to duck when a resident threw a television set down the stairs.
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Ordered to get a photo of cocky young Tories swigging champagne, a Left-wing rag's snapper sneaked in to a disco hosted by the trendy Policy Exchange think-tank. But the moment his flash went off, he was sent flying in a rugby tackle by kitten-heeled activist Katy Taylor-Richards. Her old boss, ex-SAS reservist David Davis, would have been proud.
Doddy is tickled by the tieless wonders
Ken Dodd took a pop at the Tories
Comic Ken Dodd was in town at the same time as the Tories and poked fun at the Cameroons' fondness for going open-necked.
'It's as if they're trying to be 21 again,' said Doddy, left. 'I've got hundreds of ties and even wear one to bed. They're the last stranglehold of men's fashion.'
- Rising star Jeremy Hunt had an irate phone call from his girlfriend over a newspaper article that said he was 'ideal husband material except for the small matter of his Chinese girlfriend'.
Says Hunt the hunk: 'She wanted to know why they called her a "small matter". I told her she was a very important matter to me.'
- Saucy MP Cheryl Gillan explained how she named the three white Buff Orpington chickens she has bought to supply her fresh eggs.
'I called the two hens Marilyn Monroe and Diana Dors because of their blonde feathers and the cock is Boris because one of his tail feathers sticks out like Boris Johnson's hair.' Yeah, right...
- Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Herbert dashed straight from being grilled by the BBC to a Stonewall gay rights fringe meeting. 'I didn't bother to take my make-up off because I knew I was coming here,' quipped openly gay Nick.
- Rebel Labour MP Barry Gardiner, sacked by Gordon Brown, cheekily claimed credit for David Cameron's speech attacking the PM.
'Cameron attacked Gordon's vision, leadership and judgment - just like me,' boasted Barry. 'I've a good mind to sue him for plagiarism.'
- Weston-Super-Mare MP John Penrose should not be surprised if Speaker Michael Martin refuses to call him to speak when the Commons returns this week.
'Gorbals' keeps confusing him with Penrose doppelganger, fellow Tory MP Douglas Carswell, who recently stepped up his one-man war on the Speaker, calling him a 'touchy, stubborn shop steward'.
