Sayeeda Warsi’s Tory colleagues are really, really sad that she has quit. A Tory source tells Guido:
“Warsi’s resignation is classic Warsi. Attacks her own team, pure grandstanding, and shows that she is a quitter. Her resignation does nothing to help the innocent civilians on both sides who are suffering. She had a much better chance of helping support the ceasefire if she had stayed inside Government. But instead she has thrown in the towel.”
George Osborne says Baroness Warsi's decision to resign over Gaza is 'disappointing and frankly unnecessary'.
— Steven Swinford (@Steven_Swinford) August 5, 2014
Let's not forget that Sayeeda Warsi has given the benefit of the doubt to Hamas before: http://t.co/A0oVhEW8bE
— Tim Montgomerie 🇬🇧 (@montie) August 5, 2014
I've always felt that what this government really lacked was its very own Clare Short…
— Mark Wallace (@wallaceme) August 5, 2014
First Tory response to Warsi from colleague: 'Self-indulgent, arrogant, hypocritical and now a nonentity' http://t.co/M7Hsq08q8v
— Isabel Hardman (@IsabelHardman) August 5, 2014
Baroness Warsi ‘wanted to be Foreign Secretary’: http://t.co/Z6giwAkBXf
— Steerpike (@MrSteerpike) August 5, 2014
No. 10 considers Baroness Warsi's 'excellent service' worth 57 words. I've written longer quotes re village fetes. https://t.co/KMDVzYYCly
— Political Animal (@politic_animal) August 5, 2014
Blog: Baroness Warsi was over-promoted, incapable and incompetent http://t.co/ueXHJtaI8I via @spectator
— Douglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray) August 5, 2014
Reaction elsewhere has been broadly positive:
Thank you @SayeedaWarsi for all the fab work that you did in Government and for taking the brave and principled stance that you have
— David Ward (@DWard) August 5, 2014
With friends like these…
