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Robbie Smith

Londoner’s Diary: Tory donor named new chair of National Gallery

National Portrait Gallery

(Picture: PA)

Welcome back to the Londoner’s Diary. First up we learn another Conservative donor has been appointed to a high-profile London institution. Later today Garden Museum director Christopher Woodward tells us about the unfortunate encounter he had with a swan while trying to raise funds for his institution and Theresa May tells us about how she discovered her former colleague’s cheeky Nando’s habit. In SW1A David Davis tells us working in virtual Parliament was like holding having a parish council work in a barn.

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