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Trolley?
Reports claim the Prime Minister is hopeless with money - either leaving no money for a dinner or vastly overpaying. And according to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, his chaotic managing style has earned him the nickname "trolley" in No10.
An insider told the BBC: "You think you are pushing it along a path towards your goal then suddenly it veers off disastrously." If anyone wanted to submit accurate Freedom of Information requests on government WhatsApp messages, "you'd have to include the trolley emoji", they added.
A Tory donor was asked to fund a nanny for Boris Johnson's baby because the Prime Minister can't survive on his £157,372-a-year salary, bombshell reports say today.
The 'cash for curtains' saga has deepened after the claims in the Sunday Times - which reported the twice-divorced PM needs £300,000 a year to survive his high living costs.
That is more than 10 times the average salary in the UK. Even the PM's existing salary puts him well within the top 2% of earners.
According to the Sunday Times, Mr Johnson has told friends he needs to earn about £300,000 a year to keep his head above water. A former No 10 insider said it was “received wisdom” that he is permanently broke.
The donor is alleged to have moaned to an MP: "I don't mind paying for leaflets but I resent being asked to pay to literally wipe the Prime Minister's baby's bottom."
Today's Sunday Times also carries shock claims that Tory chiefs footed a bill for the PM's £165-an-hour personal trainer, and a personal chef when he was hospitalised with Covid.
The Electoral Commission, the watchdog for political donations, said on Wednesday: "We are now satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that an offence or offences may have occurred.
"We will therefore continue this work as a formal investigation to establish whether this is the case.
When they arrived in 2019, a No10 spokeswoman said there would not be "any additional cost to the taxpayer" of Ms Symonds living there.
But the 32-year-old has since removed Theresa May ’s “John Lewis furniture nightmare”, according to an article in Tatler - a decade since David and Samantha Cameron had a £30,000 new kitchen fitted.
The makeover is said to have been inspired by designer Lulu Lytle, and include £840-a-roll wallpaper, a £9,800 Baby Bear sofa and a £3,000 Lily Drum table.
The Sunday Times has raised fresh questions about the flow of money, quoting Tory sources who said there was a second invoice settled by a third party for more money on top of the £58,000.
Asked if £157,000 a year was a decent salary Mr Raab replied: "Yes, of course it is."
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/tory-donor-asked-to-fund-nanny-for-boris-johnson-s-baby-as-pm-needs-300k-to-get-by/ar-BB1gh2wF?ocid=msedgntp
An insider told the BBC: "You think you are pushing it along a path towards your goal then suddenly it veers off disastrously." If anyone wanted to submit accurate Freedom of Information requests on government WhatsApp messages, "you'd have to include the trolley emoji", they added.
A Tory donor was asked to fund a nanny for Boris Johnson's baby because the Prime Minister can't survive on his £157,372-a-year salary, bombshell reports say today.
The 'cash for curtains' saga has deepened after the claims in the Sunday Times - which reported the twice-divorced PM needs £300,000 a year to survive his high living costs.
That is more than 10 times the average salary in the UK. Even the PM's existing salary puts him well within the top 2% of earners.
According to the Sunday Times, Mr Johnson has told friends he needs to earn about £300,000 a year to keep his head above water. A former No 10 insider said it was “received wisdom” that he is permanently broke.
The donor is alleged to have moaned to an MP: "I don't mind paying for leaflets but I resent being asked to pay to literally wipe the Prime Minister's baby's bottom."
Today's Sunday Times also carries shock claims that Tory chiefs footed a bill for the PM's £165-an-hour personal trainer, and a personal chef when he was hospitalised with Covid.
The Electoral Commission, the watchdog for political donations, said on Wednesday: "We are now satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that an offence or offences may have occurred.
"We will therefore continue this work as a formal investigation to establish whether this is the case.
When they arrived in 2019, a No10 spokeswoman said there would not be "any additional cost to the taxpayer" of Ms Symonds living there.
But the 32-year-old has since removed Theresa May ’s “John Lewis furniture nightmare”, according to an article in Tatler - a decade since David and Samantha Cameron had a £30,000 new kitchen fitted.
The makeover is said to have been inspired by designer Lulu Lytle, and include £840-a-roll wallpaper, a £9,800 Baby Bear sofa and a £3,000 Lily Drum table.
The Sunday Times has raised fresh questions about the flow of money, quoting Tory sources who said there was a second invoice settled by a third party for more money on top of the £58,000.
Asked if £157,000 a year was a decent salary Mr Raab replied: "Yes, of course it is."
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/tory-donor-asked-to-fund-nanny-for-boris-johnson-s-baby-as-pm-needs-300k-to-get-by/ar-BB1gh2wF?ocid=msedgntp