Carrie Symonds
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Frost’s new role to harden UK’s approach to its EU commitments
- UK
- February 18, 2021, 20:55
David Frost’s promotion to the cabinet marks the return of open factionalism to Downing Street after months of quieter manoeuvring following the sacki(...)

The year Boris Johnson became the sick man of Britain
- UK
- December 26, 2020, 06:00
2020 was always likely to end with deadlines falling and businesses panicking while Britain and the European Union struggled to agree a post-Brexit fr(...)

‘People say it must be hard to parody Cummings and Gove. And I say yes’
- Books
- December 8, 2020, 05:00
In lockdown, Arthur Mathews is taking consolation from nostalgia. “I’m watching a lot of Talking Pictures at the moment,” he says. “It’s my favourite (...)

How Carrie Symonds became focus of media vitriol in fallout over Downing Street meltdown
- People
- November 16, 2020, 17:05
Why is it that when men in positions of power make idiots of themselves, commit some transgression, fall out with one another – or, in this case, mana(...)

Chris Johns: A political dogfight grips London, but what, exactly, are they fighting about?
- Economy
- November 15, 2020, 12:14
Panto season has started early in the UK with a political dogfight in Downing Street. A row that has gripped political anoraks and dominated the headl(...)

Dominic Cummings’s grip weakens as war breaks out for Johnson’s ear
- UK
- November 12, 2020, 21:32
The drama surrounding Boris Johnson’s advisers in Downing Street is not so much an episode of The West Wing as of The Tudors, with the king’s consort (...)

Johnson aide’s resignation raises doubts about future of Cummings
- UK
- November 12, 2020, 21:20
Conservative MPs have welcomed the resignation of Lee Cain as Boris Johnson’s director of communications amid doubts about the future of the prime min(...)

Downing Street a ‘nest of vipers’ as Johnson aide quits in power struggle
- UK
- November 12, 2020, 11:08
Boris Johnson was on Thursday urged to reshape his chaotic and faction-riven Downing Street operation, after his communications chief quit in a power (...)

Italian airport quashes claims of Boris Johnson’s secret trip
- UK
- September 21, 2020, 16:07
An Italian airport has quashed reports the British prime minister landed there to make a secretive trip to the country less than a fortnight ago, a cl(...)

British government conducts humiliating U-turn on A-level results
- UK
- August 17, 2020, 08:27
Tens of thousands of A-level students in England are set to see their grades increased after a humiliating U-turn by the British government. Followin(...)