Handbags at dawn in Downing Street

It’s handbags at dawn over in Downing Street. Last week, Nicky Morgan used an interview with the Times to criticise Theresa May for wearing trousers costing nearly £1,000 while claiming to be in touch with the ‘JAMs’. The former education secretary said that she herself had never spent that much on anything ‘apart from my wedding dress’.

Now Morgan has found herself the persona non grata — once again — with No. 10. The former education secretary has been banned from entering 10 Downing Street, with May’s Chief of Staff Fiona Hill breaking the news in a text referring to Morgan as ‘that woman’.

However, it looks as though there is a second reason Morgan is on shaky ground. As the Mail reports today, the Conservative MP has regularly been snapped with a rather fetching Mulberry leather bag. And how much does this item retail for? £950.

Mr S suspects the pair ought to try and put their differences aside — perhaps some retail therapy would do the trick…