Thames Water’s hosepipe ban is in place. It mostly applies to residential properties – you can water plants that are for commercial use. Is Shabana Mahmood planning on selling these ones?
Private contractors are keeping the foliage outside government offices on Marsham Street – also the home of DEFRA – fed and watered with a big old hose today. Sorry about all your private gardens in SW1…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”