EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Wedding invite snub for Blair & Brown was ‘establishment revenge’, says Campbell

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Invitation snub for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown at Prince William and Kate’s wedding was ‘establishment revenge’ on the former Labour PMs, Alastair Campbell claims By Eden Confidential By Richard Eden For The Daily Mail Published: 01:58 GMT, 27 March 2021 | Updated: 02:00 GMT, 27 March 2021 When it was revealed that Tony … Read more

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Wedding invite snub for Blair & Brown was ‘establishment revenge’, says Campbell

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Invitation snub for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown at Prince William and Kate’s wedding was ‘establishment revenge’ on the former Labour PMs, Alastair Campbell claims By Eden Confidential By Richard Eden For The Daily Mail Published: 01:58 GMT, 27 March 2021 | Updated: 02:00 GMT, 27 March 2021 When it was revealed that Tony … Read more

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Oprah Winfrey interview will ‘rock establishment at its very core’

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey will ‘rock the establishment at its very core,’ a royal author has claimed.  Australian entertainment journalist and media executive Dylan Howard, who wrote Royals at War – the explosive book on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s shocking exit from royal life – shares his … Read more

The cream of Britain’s Establishment is wooed by often controversial Russian power brokers

For wealthy foreigners, respectability is the ultimate asset. Buying a mansion on millionaires’ row is only half the job — the real sign that you’ve entered Britain’s high society is by hosting a glamorous party there, thronged with titled bigwigs. And as this week’s scalding Intelligence and Security Committee report on Russia confirmed, their influence … Read more

The cream of Britain’s Establishment is wooed by often controversial Russian power brokers

For wealthy foreigners, respectability is the ultimate asset. Buying a mansion on millionaires’ row is only half the job — the real sign that you’ve entered Britain’s high society is by hosting a glamorous party there, thronged with titled bigwigs. And as this week’s scalding Intelligence and Security Committee report on Russia confirmed, their influence … Read more

Chinese fixer targets five leaders: New evidence of China’s infiltration of British Establishment

A leading figure in a Chinese group allegedly created to groom foreign elites has been pictured with five British prime ministers. Photographs uncovered by the Daily Mail show how Zhirong Hu has moved among the British Establishment. He has met Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. Mr Hu is a … Read more

Chinese fixer targets five leaders: New evidence of China’s infiltration of British Establishment

A leading figure in a Chinese group allegedly created to groom foreign elites has been pictured with five British prime ministers. Photographs uncovered by the Daily Mail show how Zhirong Hu has moved among the British Establishment. He has met Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. Mr Hu is a … Read more

How a Chinese handbag seller now finds herself at the heart of the Establishment

‘Love of my life’: Lord Bates and Li Xuelin on their wedding day in 2012 Li Xuelin has always been a woman in a hurry. But perhaps on her wedding day, she allowed herself a moment to reflect on her dizzying, though carefully calibrated, journey from communist China to the heart of the British Establishment. After exchanging … Read more

Leviathans of the British establishment are labelled China’s ‘useful idiots’

They are persons of considerable influence – City grandees, royal representatives and major charity heads.  Among them are a life peer and three knights of the realm.  Another was a top Whitehall mandarin. All have impeccable CVs, barring one scandal. The British individuals gathered up by the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to work for the … Read more