Make way for the Harrow Mincers – pearls and all!
AS THE most tumultuous, cataclysmic and risibly farcical month in the recent history of British politics proceeds at pace it was tempting to think that nothing else could possibly occur to make the situation more ludicrous.
That however was to factor without prospective Tory leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom.
The hitherto peripheral Energy Minister appears to be revelling in her new-found, and most likely short-lived, celebrity status.
More from this author
Anti-racist and faith groups lead vigil for terrorist attack victims
Similar stories

MAT COWARD remembers when the Conservative HQ at the Carlton Club got engulfed in some street-based class warfare

From boozy banker renegade to man-of-the-people populist, Farage’s evolution continues — if he can win constituencies like the Welsh mining areas, the left will need new and better answers, writes ANDREW MURRAY

MAT COWARD takes us back 230 years to the inglorious era of George III and a treasonous plan by the London Corresponding Society, in which all was not as it seemed…

CHRISTINE LINDEY identifies the socialist impulse and sympathy with working people that underlies the artistic mission and inspired work of Vincent Van Gogh