One is best known as Park Avenue princess Charlotte York in Sex And The City, while the other became a real-life princess, as well as a York, when she married Prince Andrew.
Difficult Women podcast, Global Radio
Let me say this up front. I am an unalloyed Rachel Johnson fan. Like most of the Johnson family, she is an adornment to our national life, even if she sometimes puts her foot in it. Her recent memoir of her time in Change UK and the LibDems,
Rake’s Progress: My Political Midlife Crisis, was a brilliantly written and very amusing page turner. If it hadn’t been published right at the start of Covid, it would have troubled the bestseller charts.
At roughly the same time, she started presenting a weekly show on LBC, which in turn has led to her launching a podcast of her own, in which she interviews a series of so-called ‘difficult women’. Quite why Global Radio didn’t call it Rachel Johnson’s ‘Bloody Difficult Women’ is a moot point, given that’s what Ken Clarke had called Theresa May, and where the phrase originated from. Had I been her, I would have insisted on it.
As turf wars rage among the staff at No. 10, a battle- weary Boris Johnson has sued for peace with one of Parliament’s most senior MPs.
In July the PM removed the Tory whip from Julian Lewis in an act of revenge, after the rebellious member for New Forest East stood against Johnson’s preferred candidate, Chris Grayling, for chairmanship of the influential Commons Intelligence And Security Committee.
What’s more, he committed the cardinal sin of actually winning.
Downing Street had assumed Grayling would be a shoo-in, but there was a revolt among MPs as he had no experience in security and had been ridiculed by many MPs when, as Transport Secretary, he gave a contract to a company which owned no ferries to provide ferries in the event of a no-deal Brexit.