Published: 8 December, 2011
by JOHN GULLIVER

NEW Camden councillor Sally Gimson (pictured), a journalist, got a page in the New Statesman this week – all to herself.

I don’t know how a local councillor managed to pull this off in a national magazine, but it was clearly a bit of a feat.

The peg – as it is known in the trade – was a diary of Gimson’s week.

In it she revealed how her husband, Andrew Gimson, had been sacked as a parliamentary sketch writer for the Daily Telegraph, and that he had some “unacceptable views”.

“He thinks the health service, for instance, should all be in charitable or private hands and that the state has no business running schools.”

This sounds like music to Michael Gove’s heart but not to Cllr Gimson’s, clearly.

I wonder what the Gimsons’ breakfast conversations are like?

Then she revealed that her husband had been sacked by the Telegraph.

But she was “pleased” he was no longer receiving its “blood money”.

Nor had she been happy at his “deeply unpleasant attacks” on Ed Miliband’s perform­ances at PMQs.

I shall have to keep an eye on this new Highgate councillor.