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Byline: Tim Walker and Edited by Richard Eden Was the MBE for Ruth Jones, star and co-creator of Gavin & Stacey, David Cameron's way of encouraging her to write a [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Tony Blair didn't quite become Britain's first Roman Catholic prime minister - he waited until six months after he was forced out of 10 Downing Street before [...]

Byline: Tim Walker With his 'scary amount of time' playing Ninja video games, and holidays in Ibiza, David Cameron is sometimes described as a 'chillaxing' prime minister. His officials have, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker With his 'scary amount of time' playing Ninja video games, and holidays in Ibiza, David Cameron is sometimes described as a 'chillaxing' prime minister. His officials have, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker David Cameron professes to be a fan of Baroness Thatcher, but he seems to enjoy seeing her portrayed in unflattering ways. He has just seen Haydn Gwynne [...]

Byline: Tim Walker THE AUDIENCE * Gielgud, to June 15 0844 482 5130; theaudienceplay.com With Tony Blair and Gordon Brown now both deemed to be too embarrassing to mention - [...]

Byline: Tim Walker AFTER THE QUALIFIED success that Sir Harold Wilson had when he attempted to ingratiate himself with the Beatles - not to mention Gordon Brown's more recent flirtation [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Convention dictates that the weekly meetings that the Queen has with her prime ministers - David Cameron is her 12th - are confidential, but Peter Morgan, whose [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Mandrake reported yesterday that David Cameron's mother, Mary, had been asked why the Prime Minister was pressing ahead with plans to change the law in favour of [...]

Byline: Tim Walker David Cameron has failed to persuade many of his MPs that the law needs to be changed in favour of samesex marriage. But has he managed to [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Michael Gove and his wife Sarah Vine, the journalist, were guests at Chequers the other day. The Prime Minister's country residence is now a childfriendly establishment, and, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker After travelling on a 'Boris bike' beside him on the streets of London, and joining him, too, on a cable car ride over the Thames, Arnold Schwarzenegger [...]

Byline: Tim Walker David Cameron is such a regular guest at Olympics events that he wore two styles of Team GB polo shirts in the same day. The Prime Minister's [...]

Byline: Tim Walker One should not perhaps be surprised, given what a chameleon he is, that Tony Blair's hair periodically changes colour. Yesterday, as the former prime minister sat under [...]

Byline: Tim Walker There was outrage in Downing Street when Craig Oliver, David Cameron's director of communications, discovered that a private conversation he'd had about bias with Norman Smith, the [...]

Byline: Tim Walker There was outrage in Downing Street when Craig Oliver, David Cameron's director of communications, discovered that a private conversation he'd had about bias with Norman Smith, the [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Craig Oliver, David Cameron's communications chief, is feeling the heat after I broke the story about how he stormed out of his Downing Street office to rebuke [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Heineken has found a way of refreshing the Tory MPs that David Cameron would appear to be having some difficulties reaching after he announced his plans to [...]

Byline: Tim Walker After Sir Peter Osborne embarrassed his son, George, in these austere times by telling a glossy magazine about his weaknesses for, among other luxuries, £145 shirts, £200 [...]

Byline: Tim Walker After Sir Peter Osborne embarrassed his son, George, in these austere times by telling a glossy magazine about his weaknesses for, among other luxuries, £145 shirts, £200 [...]

Byline: Tim Walker After Sir Peter Osborne embarrassed his son, George, in these austere times by telling a glossy magazine about his weaknesses for, among other luxuries, £145 shirts, £200 [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Eager to endear himself to young voters, Gordon Brown professed himself to be an Arctic Monkeys fan. David Cameron is, however, unlikely to provoke any cruel titters [...]

Byline: Tim Walkers Eager to endear himself to young voters, Gordon Brown professed himself to be an Arctic Monkeys fan. David Cameron is, however, unlikely to provoke any cruel titters [...]

Byline: Tim Walker FILM BUFFS Samantha Cameron, above, continues to take an interest in her husband's cultural education. After she took the Prime Minister to the National Gallery for the [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Just as Dame Norma Major took charge of her husband's cultural education and insisted that he accompany her to the opera from time to time, Samantha Cameron, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker While David Cameron can't be blamed for what his relations and in–laws say – even his wife's stepfather, Viscount Astor, when he condemned the Coalition's decision to [...]

Byline: Tim Walker David Cameron may not have quite as many friends in Europe's citadels of power as he once had, but Mandrake fancies that a bingo–mad granny from Bracknell [...]

Byline: Tim Walker David Cameron and Jonathan Agnew didn't immediately appear to hit it off when the Prime Minister appeared on Test Match Special during the summer. 'Some people would [...]

Byline: Tim Walker As David Cameron encourages the nation to tighten its belt, is he trying to make a few cuts of his own? A visitor to Downing Street informs [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Given all of David Cameron's efforts to distance himself from News International after the phone hacking scandal, Mandrake is curious as to how Tom Stoddart's photographic montage [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Mandrake wonders if David Cameron has taken heed of what Mike Read, the 64–yearold disc jockey, was saying over the weekend about the importance that the late [...]

Byline: Tim Walker When Ed Vaizey, the arts minister, suggested during the election campaign that Samantha Cameron may have voted Labour, there were howls of indignation. Still, Mandrake is beginning [...]

Byline: Tim Walker BELT UP Lara Bohinc, who created the woven bracelet that Samantha Cameron gave to Michelle Obama during the American president's visit earlier this year, is not a [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Too great a degree of affection for Rebekah Brooks, the ousted News International chief executive at the centre of the phone hacking scandal, is now regarded in [...]

Byline: Tim Walker TRADING IN Handpicked by David Cameron as an 'ambassador' for British business, Anya Hindmarch may not be a long–term appointment. The fashion designer, pictured, who is a [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Having raised hackles among some of his MPs when he told the House of Commons this week that 'the Right overdoes the Left–leanings of the BBC', David [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Three weeks after the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, condemned the 'frightening' Coalition, David Cameron's wider family is lending him support. Viscount Astor, who is married [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Nick Clegg's critics claim that he is failing to exert much influence in Downing Street, but the Deputy Prime Minister is certainly making his presence felt on [...]

Byline: Tim Walker While David Cameron has often gone to embarrassing lengths to show that he is prolier–than–thou, his uncle Sir William Dugdale has no such inhibitions. 'The thing is, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker With a script that was originally branded as a 'Left–wing fantasy' and at least one member of the cast admitting that he 'loathed' Margaret Thatcher's premiership, The [...]

Byline: BY TIM WALKER JUST AS MIKE YARWOOD, an acclaimed impersonator of Harold Wilson in his day, never really appeared to get over Margaret Thatcher's election as prime minister, Rory [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Although Sir Nicholas Hytner, the director of the National Theatre, stopped short of employing the word 'Philistines,' he says neither David Cameron nor Nick Clegg have paid [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Not since that grand old actor-manager Tony Blair finally tired of the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowds has Prime Minister's Questions been [...]

Byline: Tim Walker Not since that grand old actor-manager Tony Blair finally tired of the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowds has Prime Minister's Questions been [...]

Byline: Tim Walker There are not many people who can say that they have been enriched by Gordon Brown, but staff in his private office and in the Cabinet Office [...]

Byline: Tim Walker There are not many people who can say that they have been enriched by Gordon Brown, but staff in his private office and in the Cabinet Office [...]

Byline: Tim Walker 'Gordon [Brown] is widely credited with preventing a second great depression through his negotiation of the global deal at the London Summit, a meeting of the G20, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker 'Gordon [Brown] is widely credited with preventing a second great depression through his negotiation of the global deal at the London Summit, a meeting of the G20, [...]

Byline: Tim Walker With an announcement expected in the new year about the good causes that Samantha Cameron will be backing, the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity looks to [...]

Byline: Tim Walker To all intents and purposes, he is the voice of David Cameron, but -- like Chance in the Peter Sellers film Being There -- he has risen [...]