Lord Cameron is enjoying his whistle-stop tour of central Asia. Is the hot weather making him forget the party line?
Speaking to ITV‘s Anushka Asthana in Uzbekistan, Cameron said when asked if he would have gone for the Rwanda policy if he were PM:
“We had a totally different situation, because we had a situation where you could return people directly to France. Now I’d love that situation to be the case again, that’s the most sensible thing: people land on a beach in Kent you take them straight back to France.“
Asthana asked if that wasn’t possible because of Brexit: “It’s simply not possible because of the situation we’re in because of the attitude of others…” Still feeling the Brexit blues…
Cameron throws shade on Boris…
“I have not been sitting like some latter day de Gaulle … waiting to be asked, how should I put it, to ‘take back control’. Nor am I Cincinnatus, hovering over my plough. I leave all classical allusions, and indeed illusions for that matter, to another former prime minister with whom I shared a number of educational experiences”.
Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron’s The Hill op-ed is causing waves across the pond. His piece urges Congress to pass a funding package for Ukraine, with a warning to the leaders of the Free World that he is “going to drop all diplomatic niceties.” Lord!
Predictably, Trump backer Marjorie Taylor Greene didn’t appreciate it. Referencing Cameron’s article where he likens Congress’ inaction in funding Ukraine to appeasing Hitler, Greene told a Sky News reporter he “needs to worry about his own country and frankly he can kiss my ass”, then swiftly slamming the door behind her. Trumpies gonna Trump…
Guido has confirmed a tip that that David Cameron’s sister-in-law Emily Sheffield is now helping the Tory press office with “soft media”, by which they mean the non-political media like fashion and showbiz magazines. Though unpaid her role is real. Presumably they hope the former Vogue deputy-editor can win over the teen Vogue Marxists to Rishi-ism…
One Boris loyalist on hearing the news queried to Guido if she is even a Tory, not without evidence:
Emily is loyal to her brother-in-law – when he quit Downing Street she was keen to join the Labour Party to fight “right-wing Tories” like errr, Theresa May. Her career has trolleyed since her Vogue days after which she was handed the editorship of the Evening Standard in a hospital pass by former chum George Osborne, to oversee job cuts and collapsing circulation. Emily then had a short run as an LBC presenter which came to an abrupt end, and was last said to be launching an Instagram-based simplified news service for teenagers. Fortunately the chumocracy is back and she’s secured a sinecure at CCHQ…
This news will further infuriate true blue Tories who feel the party has been taken over by clueless, posh centrists. Perish the thought…
