CAMILLA LONG
These marches should have been a dream for the Tories, then Braverman stepped up
The Sunday Times
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Narrated by Camilla Long
Not a great week for Tory women, was it? First there was Nadine Dorries, who wrote a book. In it, the palpitating, silk-scarved former culture secretary tried to present herself as both so stupid that she was frightened of a menu at a smart restaurant but so clever and perceptive that she had single-handedly cracked a shadowy, deep-state plot run by Michael Gove.
Sample sentence: “‘You’re a writer. You should write the truth about this,’ said one aide in No 10.” (Italics: author’s own.) It was House of Cards written by Harriet the Spy.
Then there was the home secretary, Suella Braverman, who also wrote something — an article. In it, she said that the Metropolitan Police were playing “favourites” with
