Best laid plans and all that went catastrophically wrong for silver spoon Amber Rudd. Until her humiliating resignation as home secretary, the privately declared target of the former director of companies in the Bahamas tax haven, and purveyor of posh extras to Four Weddings and a Funeral, was No 10. Tories whispered that Rudd didn’t disguise her ambitions despite a vulnerable 346 majority in Hastings and Rye. Winning the leadership, she calculated, would generate a personal electoral bounce. Not any more.
The Lib Dems are a niche political market but buy shares in newbie Layla Moran, the first MP of Palestinian heritage. Moran, jeered by vengeful Tory boot boys after ousting health minister Nicola Blackwood in Oxford West and Abingdon, is gathering support. I’m told the party’s highly regarded former spinners Jasper Gerard, Paul Butters and Paul Haydon recently advised earnest Moran on how to boost her image. Watch out, Vince!
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