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David Cameron's pledge to stop Britain’s economy being too “London-centric” is no idle boast, it seems.
On the day he heard that 400 jobs were at risk at the ailing Milford Haven oil refinery in sleepy west Wales, the PM picked up the phone to Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb to ask, West Wing-style: “How can we fix this?”
“He made it clear the Government would use its full influence to help find a private sector buyer,” says Crabb, who helped broker US tycoon Gary Klesch’s newly confirmed rescue deal.
Indeed, Cameron had made his first visit to Pembrokeshire a few weeks prior to his intervention.
Apparently, the trip was a real “eye-opener”.
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Charlie Mullins, Britain’s self-styled celebrity plumber, is driving a rival handyman round the U-bend.
Will Davies, who runs the property maintenance company Aspect.co.uk, is considering calling in the lawyers, after claiming Mullins is asking for positive reviews on Aspect posted on Trustpilot, the business world’s answer to TripAdvisor, to be removed.
But Mullins is refusing to budge. He maintains the Aspect reviews are “questionable” and bring “the entire system into disrepute”.
Plungers at dawn.
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harriet.dennys@telegraph.co.uk
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