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The hostilities between David Cameron and Nadine Dorries – welcomed back into his party through gritted teeth by the  PM – will tomorrow spill out on to the  Tory cocktail party circuit.

Barely minutes after David Davis had sent out his invitations to a ‘Welcome Back Nadine’ champagne reception, ambitious young Tories received an email making it clear that they were expected at a ‘vital’ No 10 campaign meeting at the same time.

‘We get the message,’ said one double-invitee. ‘If you want a job, ditch Nad.’

The hostilities between David Cameron and Nadine Dorries will tomorrow spill out on to the Tory cocktail party circuit

 Since George Osborne hired former BBC producer Thea Rogers as an adviser, he has undergone an image overhaul: his fogeyish suits look sharper and his foppish quiff has been chopped. 

But Ms Rogers, 30, who joined the Treasury last autumn, is also having an impact in other ways.

‘She is completely ferocious in meetings,’ says one Whitehall insider. ‘She takes on everyone. Even George looks scared.’

 True-blue-Cecil - a hit with the greens

At 81, Margaret Thatcher’s best loved Tory chairman Cecil Parkinson (right), who helped her win a landslide victory in the 1983 Election, has lost none of his drive.

A keen golfer for more than half a century, Cecil scored a hole in one at the magnificent Valderrama golf course – the scene of 1997 Ryder Cup triumph for Seve Ballesteros.

Parkinson, right, went on to get an eagle, two below par, on the toughest par-five hole. Whatever Cecil is on, Dog would like some of it.

 Owen Paterson felt a hand on his shoulder as he went through passport control in Australia last month, and was told by a burly guard that the mud on his shoes could be a disease risk.

‘But this is prestigious dirt,’ said the Environment Secretary.

‘It comes direct from the turf of the British Grand National!’ Paterson’s verbal flash of the Union Jack did the trick and he was waved straight through.

 It's a target seat, Adam

Would-be Tory leader Adam Afriyie was just about the only high-profile Conservative MP to bother to campaign  in the no-hope South Shields by-election  – an effort regarded as ‘admirable’ by his friends and ‘desperate’ by his enemies. 

‘I don’t know why he bothered,’ says an MP in the latter category.

‘They use blue rosettes for target practice up there, especially when they are worn by multi-millionaires. His ambition is insatiable.’

 

Pint-sized ex-Labour Minister Sir Ian McCartney can be forgiven for not sharing the rose-tinted take on the late Walter Harrison, the 1970s Labour whip whose thuggish antics are immortalised in the current hit play This House. Five-foot-nothing McCartney recalls how, years after Harrison had retired as an MP, he met him in the Commons Strangers’ Bar.

‘For no apparent reason, he came up and punched me in the testicles,’ recalled McCartney. ‘He hit me so hard I had to have an emergency operation.’ They don’t make ’em like that any more.


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