Like the first swallow of spring, the sound of chinked glasses in the sun signals the beginning of summer. It’s the annual party season and Mr S has been doing the rounds this week. Normally, buying and selling is left to the City but if Steerpike had to invest sums in anyone it would be Defence Secretary Ben Wallace.
If Steerpike had to invest sums in anyone it would be Defence Secretary Ben Wallace.
Yesterday he was spotted tossing shrimp on the barbie with Aussies in Kensington; today he was the keynote speaker at ConservativeHome in Westminster. To a well-attended crowd, Wallace joked that ‘I’m not Michael Gove – well, I’m not how he used to be, in his speeches’ and claimed that, with regards to the AUKUS deal, ‘it seems the Australians were not happy with their deal with the French… they wanted a submarine that went forward as well as backwards.
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