It would be extraordinary if a row about a pair of trousers had continued into a second week – if the row were just about a pair of trousers. As I wrote last week (when I thought the fight over Nicky Morgan’s comments about Theresa May owning a pair of £995 leather trousers was starting to fade), it was a curious intervention for a female politician to make about one of her sisters, especially when Morgan is an MP on a salary three times the national average anyway.
But what this row is really about, as well as an ill-judged act of personal revenge from Morgan for being dispatched from the Cabinet by May, is about the way Number 10 and the Conservative Party is now being run. Morgan is a well-known Cameroon, someone who was very comfortable with the previous Prime Minister’s political instincts and priorities.
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