Matthew Parris discusses Penny Mordaunt’s appeal on Radio 4’s Today Programme…

“She’s a bit of a mystery I think to all of us, in her favour she has an attractive personality, she is obviously fun, she sounds like a good sport, but on the other side of the balance, I think the thing she’s got to rebut is that she is flaky, the politics of the shallow end, she was once a magician’s assistant. You can’t cut the deficit in half.”