what can Priti Patel and Oliver Dowden talk about?
The Londoner hears Home Affairs Minister Patel and former party chairman Dowden were spotted in ‘deep conversation’ at the Goodwood Race Festival in Sussex at the weekend. Dowden resigned last week over two Tory by-election defeats. It has been reported that Prime Minister Boris Johnson may shake Patel to replace him due to bad pressure on his plans to send migrants to Rwanda.
Elsewhere, another former Tory Party chairman wrote for The House magazine that the Tory party is in danger if it does not change leader. Patel and Dowden may have discussed the same thing.
David Davis on public vs. private
Grammar School alumni David Davis last night provided an interesting insight into the attitudes of conservatives toward contemporaries who did not attend public school. “I think I’m quite hard to deal with if you’re a public schoolboy,” he said, adding that fellow politician Andrew Mitchell told him: “Ethonists hate you because you’re just as arrogant as they are, but you did not pay for it. ”
Cared for Andy Murray
Wimbledon first day
Londoner’s Diary 28 06 22
WIMBLEDON kicked off yesterday, where pregnant pop star Mollie King feasted with former Saturday bandmate Rochelle Humes and Humes’ husband Marvin at the hospitality suite of water sponsor Evian. At the Champagne Lanson Suite, presenters Holly Willoughby, Phillip Schofield and Stacey Dooley were joined by singer Rachel Stevens. In Mayfair, Freddie Fox was at the premiere of his film about artist Eric Ravi-lious.