The Telegraph’s weekly Peterborough diary column offers an unparalleled insight into what’s really going on at Westminster and beyond
How do you respond when your neighbour asks you about the present he gave your late mother, which turned out to be unusable, without causing offence?
This is a question that the King may well face when he makes his postponed State visit to France this autumn. Why? Because President Macron might ask what has happened to Fabuleux de Maucourt, the Republican Guard horse he gave Elizabeth II for her Platinum Jubilee, which has been noticeably absent from British State ceremonials ever since. For the sake of the Entente Cordiale, one can only hope that the “fabulous” gray Selle Français horse hasn’t been turned into tasty chevaline.
Faced with a crucially important by-election in the Glasgow suburbs following the removal of MP Margaret Ferrier for breaking Covid rules, the hapless SNP are now trying to improve their credentials with their Green Party partners in government.
If trying to secure independence and enable men to more easily self-identify as women were not enough, the SNP snowflakes are now interfering in a Westminster-reserved matter: defence.