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| Send for Lynton! Is calling in Crosby proof that Amber Rudd wants to be PM? | Send for Lynton! Is calling in Crosby proof that Amber Rudd wants to be PM? |
| (about 5 hours later) | |
| Name: Amber Rudd. | Name: Amber Rudd. |
| Age: 54. | Age: 54. |
| Appearance: Slightly sinister. | |
| Ah, how is the dear old home secretary? Feeling pretty chipper, we must infer. | Ah, how is the dear old home secretary? Feeling pretty chipper, we must infer. |
| Oh? How so? I thought she was in contempt of court for apparently disregarding high court orders preventing the deportation of an asylum seeker in the UK to Afghanistan? A judge has said she prima facie is, but Amber seems to be fearlessly setting her mind towards the future. | Oh? How so? I thought she was in contempt of court for apparently disregarding high court orders preventing the deportation of an asylum seeker in the UK to Afghanistan? A judge has said she prima facie is, but Amber seems to be fearlessly setting her mind towards the future. |
| Why do I feel my heart filling with dread? She has hired high-profile pollster Lynton Crosby’s firm CTF Partners to run her next election campaign. | Why do I feel my heart filling with dread? She has hired high-profile pollster Lynton Crosby’s firm CTF Partners to run her next election campaign. |
| Heart not getting any emptier of dread. Which has prompted speculation that she is preparing to launch a leadership bid. | Heart not getting any emptier of dread. Which has prompted speculation that she is preparing to launch a leadership bid. |
| And what have CTF Partners said? That their work is entirely limited to her constituency and that any leadership speculation is “far-fetched and wrong”. | And what have CTF Partners said? That their work is entirely limited to her constituency and that any leadership speculation is “far-fetched and wrong”. |
| So, sounds like a dead cert then? One cannot help but feel. Although it’s not as if the MP for Hastings and Rye doesn’t need some work done in her constituency. | So, sounds like a dead cert then? One cannot help but feel. Although it’s not as if the MP for Hastings and Rye doesn’t need some work done in her constituency. |
| Oh yes – she got hammered in the general election, didn’t she? Good times. Her majority fell from 4,796 to 346, thanks possibly to people’s objections to her plan to require British companies to disclose how many foreign workers they had, possibly to her dropping of the Dubs amendment scheme to take in solitary child refugees, and possibly to Momentum’s “Get Rid of Rudd” campaign. | Oh yes – she got hammered in the general election, didn’t she? Good times. Her majority fell from 4,796 to 346, thanks possibly to people’s objections to her plan to require British companies to disclose how many foreign workers they had, possibly to her dropping of the Dubs amendment scheme to take in solitary child refugees, and possibly to Momentum’s “Get Rid of Rudd” campaign. |
| It’s all coming back to me now! They somehow managed to suggest that she was not entirely devoted to the people of the East Sussex coast. By directly quoting a 2013 interview she gave about how benefits claimants moved to her constituency for easy access to drink and drugs, and joking about how the area looked “a bit depressing” but she had wanted to be “within two hours of London”. | It’s all coming back to me now! They somehow managed to suggest that she was not entirely devoted to the people of the East Sussex coast. By directly quoting a 2013 interview she gave about how benefits claimants moved to her constituency for easy access to drink and drugs, and joking about how the area looked “a bit depressing” but she had wanted to be “within two hours of London”. |
| What are her leadership chances? She came fifth in the latest poll of party members, with 7.5%, after Boris (21%), Jacob Rees-Mogg (15%), David Davis (14%) and Other (18%). | What are her leadership chances? She came fifth in the latest poll of party members, with 7.5%, after Boris (21%), Jacob Rees-Mogg (15%), David Davis (14%) and Other (18%). |
| I cannot deal with these choices. No one can. No one can. | I cannot deal with these choices. No one can. No one can. |
| Do say: “Don’t Leave the Tories Rudd-erless!” | Do say: “Don’t Leave the Tories Rudd-erless!” |
| Don’t say: “Cl-Amber to Victory!” | Don’t say: “Cl-Amber to Victory!” |