Liam Fox denies claims that 'plotter' Adam Afriyie is his stalking horse Adam Afriyie's Conservative leadership aspirations have been widely mocked since the exposure of an alleged plot by three Sunday newspapers. But now a Left-wing journal claims that the wealthy backbencher could be merely a stalking horse for Dr Liam Fox, who was eliminated by MPs in the second round of the 2005 Tory leadership contest. According to the New Statesman, Afriyie was spotted "popping in and out" of Dr Fox's Commons office in the weeks before the "plot" was exposed. However, the former defence secretary tells Mandrake: "This is a complete fabrication." Jill Ritblat, a lawyer, has donated 400 items from her wardrobe to the Design Museum. The fashion-loving arts patron admits that her husband, the property magnate Sir John Ritblat, has the final say on what she wears. "I was wearing another outfit this evening," she tells me at the private view of Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things, at the Design Museum in London. But he didn't like it, so I had a costume change.