The ears of Theresa May’s chief Brexit negotiator Olly Robbins must have burned during the Conservative conference in Brum. Word is relations are strained with the PM, not because of the surprise Salzburg slap, but a promise he made to Michel Barnier in March that the UK would definitely remain in the customs union. Nor is any love lost between Robbins and David Davis. The former Brexit secretary demanded Robbins’s sacking after accusing him of leaking plans to stockpile food before publication of official advice. So paranoid was DD he despatched officials to check a blueprint was still locked in his safe. This lot couldn’t negotiate their way out of a paper bag.
In the bowels of the Dark Star that was Tory conference, the oligarch Alexander Temerko, a Ukrainian-born Tory donor, was overheard grumbling that his one-time favourite character Boris Johnson has joined the Sith. “Boris has gone over to the dark side,” lamented Temerko, “but he’s not quite yet Darth Vader.” With his powers fading surely the deranged troll resembles a bastard child of Chewbacca and Grand Moff Tarkin.
Content from our partners
