It was the night before Donald Trump's inauguration as President last year and among the political and business glitterati gathered in a Washington hotel for a party was Farage.
The high-ranking figures will try to persuade the beleaguered Prime Minister that it would be in the party's best interests if he agreed a timetable for his departure from Downing Street.
The former deputy Prime Minister confirmed last week that she has signed a deal to write an 'authentic' book about her rise from working class roots to the Cabinet - and then her resignation
His medals had resided in Lord Ashcroft's VC Gallery at the Imperial War Museum until its recent controversial closure. His family decided to sell it through London-based auctioneers Spink & Son.
Focus groups carried out by pollster Lord Ashcroft found that voters of 'all political backgrounds' oppose the policy announced by the Prime Minister last month.
The first time Peter Mandelson resigned, I was Treasurer of a beleaguered Conservative Party that needed all the cheering up it could get. Pictured: Lord Ashcroft
At the swish Westminster launch last week of Red Prince, the unauthorised biography of Sir Keir Starmer by Tory grandee Lord Ashcroft, there was a strong Reform turnout. So is he ready to jump ship?
Against a backdrop of plunging donations and plunging morale, Kemi Badenoch is ready to wield the axe again at Tory headquarters, where a round of compulsory redundancies is planned.