Since entering (and losing) successive Tory leadership contests last year, Penny Mordaunt has thrown herself into the role of Leader of the House with characteristic gusto. Her weekly sessions at Business Questions in the Commons have become required watching, as she dispatches SNP goons with a mix of bombast and brio.
Indeed, watching her roast of Gary Lineker last month on one of Mordaunt’s regular Twitter clips, Mr S felt he was watching a party political broadcast on behalf of the Penny Mordaunt party. And perhaps there are some signs that Mordaunt hasn’t yet abandoned her dreams of one day leading the Tories. Over the Easter weekend, she released a glossy video of her touring her Portsmouth constituency, replete with numerous presidential-style shots of Mordaunt.
And newly-published Cabinet Office documents show she has certainly kept up the media charm offensive. Transparency returns released on the last day before Easter recess – the traditional ‘take out the trash’ day – show that 10 of the 13 registered ministerial meetings
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