Baroness Pidding CBE (AKA, “The Bet Lynch Baroness”, born Emma Pidding)Solihull born and a former bank clerk, big-haired Baroness Pidding became engulfed in the ‘Tatler Tory’ scandal in November 2015. Described by Lord Ashcroft as the sort “not afraid to get her hands dirty” and a lookalike of the Coronation Street character Bet Lynch, Pidding lives in a £3 million house in Buckinghamshire and told The Mail on Sunday: “In 30 years as a volunteer for the Conservative Party I have never done anything blameworthy or underhand”. The family of the late Conservative activist Elliott Johnson, given their calls for her to be quizzed by police, plainly feel to the contrary.

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The Rt. Hon. the Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG PC
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The Rt. Hon. the Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG PC

This real life ‘M’ is a former Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism and has also been a BBC Governor and Chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee. Oxford educated Neville-Jones is said to be “sparky” and collects antiques and enjoys cooking and gardening. Dame Judi Dench could quite easily be her body […]

Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington DCVO, PC
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Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington DCVO, PC

“If you want news, listen to the radio; if you want sex, read the newspapers” is amongst the many classic quotes from this Conservative peer. A land girl, a Bletchley Park codebreaker, Mayor of Cambridge, an agriculture minister, and now a Baroness, Trumpington famously stuck two fingers up at Lord King of Bridgwater after he […]