I am ploughing through my (borrowed) copy of Sasha Swire’s Diary of an MPs Wife. Sasha is the wife of former Tory Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire. The diary is pretty much a catalogue of clashing egos, including the diarist’s own, during the years 2010-2019. I felt the urge to read it after I read a couple of appalling reviews—so bad you had to locate a copy. It ought to be a bestseller in a new genre simply called ‘backstabbing.’ Swire’s delivery is at least direct. Here’s the 11th July, 2016 : ‘Almost immediately [newly anointed PM Theresa May’s] new bezzies were squirming around her like snakes in a bucket. And Conservative MPs are good at shedding their skin when they sense power might be drawn away from them—and they are even more slimy if they think they are in with a chance of some of that power.’ At least Labour MPs would never behave like that, although a handful do seem to squirm up to the Tories when there’s a peerage on offer (Ian Austin and John Mann come to mind immediately). All in all I would heartily recommend Swire’s book, even though I suspect some of it was re-edited to reflect later assessments of who and what was up and down. Or maybe she really did have a crystal ball. She’s a kind of ballsy type, is Sasha.
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