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FAILED Tory leadership candidate Andrea Leadsom may have signed her own resignation letter as a minister just hours after taking on the role of Environment Secretary after she warned that male nannies could be paedophiles.
Ms Leadsom, who quit the Tory run-off after saying in a Times interview that she would make a better leader than Theresa May because she was a mother, insisted parents needed to be cautious when dealing with childcare.
In a further extract from the interview, published yesterday, she is quoted as saying: “Let’s face it, most of us don’t employ men as nannies. Most of us don’t. Now you can call that sexist. I call that cautious and very sensible, when you look at the stats.
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership
The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY
The Prime Minister’s hamfisted promotional video promising to go ‘further and faster’ coincides with Angela Rayner’s resignation over tax dodging and Mandelson’s long overdue departure over Epstein — incredible timing, writes MATT KERR