With just two days to go until Theresa May’s big Chequers away day, the Cabinet headed to 22 Old Queen for a pre-sesh. Theresa May held court in the garden while Michael Gove charmed guests on the merits of getting rid of tusk – ivory, not the EU leader naturally.
Given that this was no normal Spectator summer party – instead the Spectator’s 190th birthday party – guests were in such a merry mood that even the odd speck of rain failed to dampen proceedings.
Here are a range of photos from the bash, courtesy of Alan Davidson and Anne Schwarz:
Jess Phillips.
Michael Gove.
Boris Johnson and Jeremy “Low Life” Clarke
Matt Hancock and Kay Burley
Andrew Neil, Theresa May and Susan Nillson
Fraser Nelson
Michelle Dewberry and Piers Morgan
Taki, with two Swedish admirers
David Starkey
David Davis and Piers Morgan
Tanya Gold, Liz Truss, James Forsyth, Ross Clark
Birthday red balloons (99 of them) outside the door of The Spectator’s offices in Westminster
Matt Hancock and Kay Burley
Julia Hartley Brewer and Nigel Evans
James Forsyth, Damian Green and Henry Newman
Andrew Neil, Ben Delo and Jeremy Hildreth
David Butterfield
Michael Gove and Katy Balls
Alan Duncan and Simon Walters
David Davis
Karen Bradley
Spot the Brexiteer – George Osborne, Julia Hartley Brewer and Lionel Barber
Robert Peston and Tim Smith
Rod Liddle
Chris Grayling says hello
Lloyd Evans
Boris Johnson greets his sister Rachel
Siblings.
Fraser Nelson and Sajid Javid
Mick Hucknall
Emily Maitlis
Dominic Lawson and Theresa May
Philip Hammond
Alice Aitken and Torcuil Crichton
Andrew Neil and Theresa May
Friends.
The Foreign Secretary
Daisy Dunn, Boris Johnson and Peter McKay
Tristram Hunt
Katy Balls, Ben Wallace and Francis Elliot
John Stevens and Jack Blanchard
Nick Robinson, David Butterfield and Emily Maitlis
Emma Boon, Giles Winn and Amber De Botton
John Witherow and Robert Peston
Rob Burley and Joy Lo Dico
Taki
Hammond and May
Helen Lederer and Danielle Wall
Emma Willis, shirtmaker
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