He’s the one-time editor of a raucous red-top newspaper who now panders to the luvvie set on a BBC podcast.
But this week David Yelland inadvertently secured an infinitely wider audience when he derided Tory MP James Cleverly for his decision to run for London mayor, confusing him with Kwasi Kwarteng by describing him as Liz Truss’s Chancellor – prompting Cleverly to reply on social media: ‘David, I’m the other black one.’
Yelland, 63, said that ‘making an admittedly idiotic error then saying sorry does not make you a buffoon’. But perhaps there’s no need for him to establish his credentials in
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