After David Cameron’s former speechwriter Clare Foges kicked off her new career outside of No.10 with a blistering editorial in the Times criticising her former employer over a range of issues including the bedroom tax, doubts began to surface that she was not a true blue.
Still, even Mr S was surprised to read in an interview with the Evening Standard that the Prime Minister’s old political advisor is ‘rooting for Jeremy Corbyn’. What’s more, the gesture is not simply part of the jovial #ToriesForCorbyn movement:
‘Foges lives alone in Archway where Jeremy Corbyn is her MP (she’s rooting for him because she lives in the area, not as part of a Tory plot).’
Foges — who earned the affectionate nickname ‘the Prime Minister’s Larynx’ during her time in No.10 — does add that Liz Kendall ‘looks best’, though admits that — unlike Corbyn — she has little chance of winning:
‘A decent Labour leader would be good for the Conservative Party — it’s like a card game, if others are raising the stakes you have to as well.
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