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Londoner’s Diary: How MI6 quashed spy’s Philby memoir

Kim Philby

Welcome back to the Londoner’s Diary. First up the son of double agent Kim Philby tells us his father’s memoir was suppressed by MI6. Also today Jacob Rees-Mogg reveals to us his favourite tax and Bernardine Evaristo explains why she took some of the sex out of her new memoir, Manifesto. In SW1A there’s an awkward moment for the Conservatives’ LGBT wing and we hear how both David Davis and Mark Francois made a beeline for old foe Michel Barnier’s Brexit book.

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