Robert Jenrick is still on his media appearance campaign. On BBC Breakfast this morning he was asked if Michael Gove was right to say he looks too much like a “Tory boy.” Jenrick didn’t mince his words:
“Well, the last person I would take advice from in a leadership contest I think is Michael Gove… I don’t know what [Tory boy] really means… I didn’t come from a traditional conservative background. Neither of my parents were card carrying members of the Conservative Party… I don’t consider myself to be a ‘Tory boy.’ I want the Conservative Party to be the trade union of working people right across this country.”
A rebrand of the Tories as the ‘trade union of working people’ along Canadian lines doesn’t gel well with the Tory boy image. No yellow cards in this spat…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”