Anna SoubryIn discussion with UKIP’s Nigel Farage MEP in June 2014, “lighthearted” Soubry suggested that some people who raise concerns about immigration are “frankly racist”. Immediately disowned by Downing Street, this former television presenter turned Conservative politician is a single mother of two children and a supporter of the legalisation of cannabis. In December 2013, she described Farage as looking “like somebody [who] has put their finger up [their] bottom and [who] really rather likes it” whilst earlier that year, the Speaker told her “to sit there and be quiet or to leave the chamber” after she heckled a fellow MP. She’s not easily silenced.

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Esther McVey MP
From the same Steeple territory

Esther McVey MP

An ambitious yet charming Liverpudlian television presenter who is now the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wirral West. Her family business is in demolition and for some eight months she was involved in her friend Kate McCann’s Madeleine McCann Fund.

Sir Bernard Ingham
From the same Steeple territory

Sir Bernard Ingham

Margaret Thatcher’s former spin doctor is as well known for his eyebrows as his outspoken remarks. In November 2013, this Yorkshireman commented that Northerners who refused to vote Conservative conveyed an “image of bovine stupidity” and has previously derided Scottish nationalists as being “as greedy as sin”. He believes that the Hillsborough disaster was caused […]