
Behind the headlines
Putting the boot into Carrie
In Boris Johnson’s No 10, it doesn’t pay to get on the wrong side of Carrie. Take the case of Ellie Lyons, a highly regarded Cambridge graduate working in Downing Street who was sacked shortly after Boris became PM. The reason she was ousted? Carrie “doesn’t like people who are more intelligent or attractive than her around her”, says an insider. “Ellie’s problem was that she is both attractive and intelligent.”