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This MoS mock-up shows how Carrie may have used a gold-coloured iPad
'tried to get a taxpayer-funded £538 gold-coloured ' while she was an advisor in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, according to claims in Lord Ashcroft's new biography.
Bombshell claims suggest Ms Johnson spent her six months as Sajid Javid's adviser in the Department for Communities and Local Government 'trying to get the department to buy her a gold-coloured iPad'.
This purchase, at public expense, was 'eventually approved by email from the Secretary of State's private office,' according to a source quoted in Lord Ashcroft's biography First Lady: Intrigue At The Court Of Carrie And Boris Johnson. 
A Freedom of Information request about the purchase was not answered for three months, even though such requests should normally be dealt with in 20 working days.

The delay was attributed to 'public interest' reasons.
The response confirmed that 'one iPad with case was purchased for a Special Adviser at a price of £538'. 
A spokesman for Carrie Johnson has said that Lord Ashcroft's book is full of 'vile fabrications', while the Prime Minister has said he had been spun a tissue of lies by disgruntled former No 10 advisers.
Reacting to the claims in Lord Ashcroft's book today, friends of Mrs Johnson have described the claims as 'misogynistic and cruel'.

Mr Johnson is said to be furious at the perceived 'hit job.'
Carrie Johnson 'tried to get a taxpayer-funded £538 gold-coloured iPad' while she was an advisor in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, according to claims
Bombshell new claims in the book have also suggested that Carrie Johnson forced out a rising star within the Tory party who was working with her then-fiancé Boris Johnson over fears she was 'too attractive and intelligent'.
Downing Street insiders, quoted in the explosive new biography written by Lord Ashcroft, suggested that Ms Johnson wielded huge power within Whitehall and warned that 'if she doesn't like you, there can be big consequences'.
The extraordinary new book also claimed Carrie Johnson was sent on long and meandering taxi journeys to keep her from key meetings during her then-boyfriend Boris Johnson's 2019 campaign and included quotes accusing her of 'impersonating'  by sending texts on his behalf to allies and even briefing him as he spoke on the phone during his successful  leadership bid.
Sources quoted in the book claim that they would 'learn to spot when she [Carrie] was writing a message' from Mr Johnson's phone.  
Others paint an extraordinary picture and allege that Mrs Johnson had Mr Johnson so under her thumb she was at times directly briefing the Prime Minister during his phone calls. 
Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng today dismissed fears that Mrs Johnson holds any 'undue influence' within Downing Street, saying the Prime Minister has his own 'strong set of ideas' after spending 25 years in politics. 
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Campaign insiders claim Carrie Johnson used her-then boyfriend Boris Johnson's phone in a bid to 'direct and control events' as his leadership bid was building steam during 2019 
Mr Johnson's survival battle is set to be dealt another blow by the publication of a biography portraying him as little more than the puppet of his wife Carrie
Campaign insiders from 2019 portray a picture of chaos, and said Mrs Johnson's continued involvement was a 'nightmare'.
One, who worked directly on Mr Johnson's leadership bid, said: 'We'd spot the different ways things were written, because the style would change.

We'd learn to spot when it was her writing the message.
'So a text message would appear saying, for example, that there was a particular MP whose support we didn't need or want. 
'We realised Boris couldn't have written the message because, the next day, Boris would contradict this.' 
'It was a nightmare,' reports a separate source of Carrie's involvement.

'She had no ideas. She wasn't prepared to roll her sleeves up and work hard, and yet she interfered all the time. This caused many problems and wasted a lot of very valuable time.'
It was even alleged that, on occasion, Mrs Johnson could be heard whispering prompts to Johnson while these phone calls were in progress.
The developments emerged alongside bombshell new claims that suggest  forced out a rising star within the Tory party who was working with her then-fiancé Boris Johnson over fears she was 'too attractive and intelligent'. 
Cambridge graduate Ellie Lyons, a one-time advisor to Boris Johnson during his leadership campaign, was reportedly dubbed 'the sexy spad' by a handful of people in Westminster and had impressed Mr Johnson during his campaign bid.
But one campaign source, quoted in Lord Ashcroft's biography, said that Mr Johnson suddenly changed tack on her, urging his inner circle to 'get rid' at the behest of Carrie because Ms Lyons was 'too attractive and intelligent'.
FRIENDS APPOINTED TO TOP GOVERNMENT JOBS: From far left: Best friend Henry Newman, appointed an aide to Boris: Allegra Stratton who became Boris's No 10 press spokesman; and Josh Grimstone who now works for Michael Gove
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AND OTHERS WHO WERE FROZEN OUT. Discarded: From far left: Ellie Lyons, labelled as 'bad news'; James Wharton, liked by Boris but rejected as 'untrustworthy' by Carrie; and Mimi Macejkova, replaced by a friend of Carrie
The Prime Minister is understood to believe that Lord Ashcroft (pictured at Tory Party Conference) has been spun a tissue of lies by disgruntled former No 10 advisers
'Completely mesmerised': Carrie embraces Boris after his speech to the Conservative Party conference in 2019
The source alleges the-then Tory leadership favourite was 'being used by Carrie to do her dirty work' and https://www.crunchyroll.com/user/dailysportclubs brought Ms Lyons' political career to an abrupt end.
Ms Johnson's orders allegedly came because she did 'not want Ellie in No 10 because she's too attractive', another Tory source explained.

Ms Lyons moved to private sector after the ordeal, but returned to the civil service last summer. 
In his new biography, Tory peer Lord Ashcroft claims Mr Johnson, 57, is 'completely mesmerised' by his 33-year-old wife and cuts a 'lonely' figure surrounded by her close friends who are now among his most influential aides.
The biography of Mrs Johnson advances the theory that faultlines in her relationship with the Prime Minister have had an impact on No 10, with one source describing it as 'a Greek tragedy'.
Among Ms Johnson's alleged scalps include Ellie Lyons, (centre) a one-time advisor to Boris Johnson during his leadership campaign, who was reportedly dubbed 'the sexy spad' by some in Westminster
Reacting to these claims on Sunday, one Johnson ally told the