That it took a former male Tory MP to point out the truly awful optics of smearing Angela Rayner…says something of the quality of politicians on both sides of the Commons right now…
“I suppose that her attackers cannot bear the idea that they are about to lose to a woman who pulled herself up by her bootstraps. And who is going to wipe the floor with them.”
Given some of the other dirt that #lordashcroft has come up with in the past - such as the highly implausible story about the young #davidcameron and the pig's head - it is astonishing that anyone would take anything from that particular source seriously! There have been earlier sexist attacks on #angelarayner by #cnservatives - the worst being the suggestion that she distracted #BorisJohnson in a similar way to #sharonstone distracting #michaeldouglas in 'Fatal Attraction'
The drama series, starring #MichaelDouglas, explores how the 70-year-, premier on one of the greatest gambles of his career, convinced the absolute monarchy of France to underwrite America's experiment in democracy.