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Robbie Smith

Londoner’s Diary: Westminster bubble ‘full of temptations and traps’

Nevena Bridgen

(Picture: MURRAY SANDERS DAILY MAIL)

Welcome back to the Londoner’s Diary. First up Nevena Bridgen tells us about the challenges of being an MP’s wife. Later Gordon Brown’s former private secretary for foreign affairs recalls an incident in which his title was mistranslated as “the intimate typist for the prime minister’s affairs overseas” and Armando Iannucci says it is “sad” that people like The Thick of It’s Malcolm Tucker. In SW1A the disgraced former mayor of Tower Hamlets is still causing trouble in east London and China hawks in the Tory party are growing their ranks.

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