An entertaining piece by Quentin Letts in the Xmas edition of The Spectator. He’s virtually the only major columnist unafraid to poke fun at female MPs. Excerpts:
Europhile successors to Heseltine and Gilmour now gather around the fourth and fifth benches directly to the right of the Speaker’s chair. Simon Burns (who retired in 2017) and Keith Simpson began this ‘naughty corner’ cluster in the 2010 Parliament; it has grown like a wasps’ nest. Anna Soubry sits there hour after hour, twitching, obsessed. Nicky Morgan comes waddling in occasionally, all avian bulgy eyes, an overfed puffin in search of mates. Give her and Soubry League of Gentlemen headscarves and they could be Blackpool ladies awaiting the tram to Cleveleys…
Jacob Rees-Mogg bags the end seat on the third bench, reclining like a man balancing a cocktail olive in his navel.
