Sex scandals! Fights! Egos! Confessions of the chief whip – The Times
October 31: Among today’s HR joys is the report that a departmental Spad went to an orgy over the weekend and ended up taking a crap on another person’s head. To make matters worse, in a separate incident a House employee went to a party dressed as Jimmy Savile and ended up having sex with a blow-up doll, for which he has been subsequently dismissed. Just another day at the office, I guess.
November 13: RS rings Suella [to sack her in the reshuffle]. After some token pleasantries all hell breaks loose. He puts her on speakerphone and everybody is listening in around the table, laden with discarded notes, open packets of No 10 biscuits and half-drunk cups of coffee. Once RS has made clear his intentions, there comes this ghastly ten-minute diatribe of vindictive and personal bile. It’s hard to know how to react at moments like this, or where to look. Part of me feels that this is a private call and that we are all eavesdropping, but the other part realises that for the protection of the PM and the government there needs to be a note taken and a record saved. So, we sit in astonished silence, doing our best not to grimace, smile or give any indication of what we feel.
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