The previous chancellor is at pains to emphasize that he by no means supported one workforce.
Nadhim Zahawi insists he does not help one membership (Picture: PA)
After former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi was seen celebrating Manchester United’s 3-2 conquer Premier League leaders Arsenal, I used to be reminded of the politician’s regrettable affiliation with the north-west’s membership’s bitterest rivals. Zahawi, who lately defected from the Tories to Reform UK, was an unlikely hooligan in his youth after teaming up with a Liverpool supporter.
Privately educated in London, he as soon as confessed: “I used to be a part of Liverpool’s agency and would exit searching for fights as a soccer hooligan. In a single struggle with Southampton followers, I keep in mind a large police horse smashed me into a store entrance on Seven Sisters Street in London.”
Nadhim’s spokeswoman is at pains to emphasize he is lengthy been totally behind United, nevertheless. “He did go round along with his buddy, who was a Liverpool fan, and become involved within the soccer fights that happened, however was by no means a supporter of the workforce itself,” she tells me.
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Asserting her departure from the company this week, climate presenter Carol Kirkwood was initially tasked with waking up frisky BBC Breakfast host Frank Bough over 40 years in the past.
A secretary on the programme on the time, younger Carol would give the star his “early morning alarm telephone name at 3am”. Frank’s profession was finally overshadowed by scandal when it emerged he had a penchant for drug-fuelled events with prostitutes, whereas clad in feminine lingerie.
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Irked by the sight of Oscar-winners Sir Gary Oldman and Sir Daniel Day-Lewis being offered with personalised soccer shirts when visiting Millwall FC, the south-east London membership’s long-time movie star fan Danny Baker raged: “The place’s my ******* one, Millwall? Been a season ticket holder for six a long time!”
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Memorably accused of stabbing Boris Johnson within the again, veteran plotter Michael Gove concludes of the present political drama. “If I have been Keir Starmer I’d undoubtedly block Andy Burnham.” Adapting a quote from Shakespeare’s tragedy Julius Caesar, Gove mischievously provides: “Yond Andy has a lean and hungry look, he thinks an excessive amount of: such males are harmful.”
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Whereas her 20-year marriage to the late Peter O’Toole proved fraught, Dame Siân Phillips reveals Welsh mom Sally received on famously with the legendary thespian.
Recalling Sally, a retired trainer, cheerfully performing PA duties on Peter’s behalf, the actress chuckles: “I keep in mind listening to her on the telephone, ‘No, Sir Laurence, [Olivier] no, I can not do this…no, Sir Laurence, I am afraid I’ve strict orders to not interrupt Mr O’Toole!’”
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