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The call is coming from inside the house. Lady Swire, the 57-year-old wife of Tory MP Sir Hugo, and the daughter of former defence secretary Sir John Nott, is uniquely placed to pass judgment on the Conservative Party and its members, being one of them for much of her life. So it is understandable that Tory party members (and their wives) will be waiting in trepidation for her new tell-all memoir, Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power, whose secrets were laid bare in The Times this weekend. Clearly not one to shy away from controversy or to call a spade a spade, she shares hilarious insights into the Torys, with no one spared. Here's what you need to know...
No one in the book gave permission for it to be published
When asked in an interview by The Times if she had been in touch with those mentioned in the book - her private diaries - for their permission, she stares blankly at the writer, saying 'Oh, I haven’t done that.'
Michael and Sarah Gove
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She has a nickname for everybody
Former Prime Minister Teresa May is 'Old Ma May', George Osborne is 'Boy George' while Dominic Raab is 'Raab C Brexit'.
David and Samantha Cameron
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Samantha Cameron once asked Sarah Gove to prepare food at her dinner party
'Poor old Sarah Gove, who bends over backwards to please the Camerons, was lumbered with cooking all the food while Samantha was upstairs learning to cut patterns (she wants to set up a fashion business). She then had her hair done! Turning up at her own party feeling perfectly relaxed while Sarah is laden down with dishes of fish pie she has herself cooked.'
David Cameron has a competitive streak
Swire's book reveals he 'ruined' every weekend away with pointless physical competitions, to prove he was the fittest.
Carrie Symonds and Boris Johnson
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has a two-way mirror
'I sit next to Dave at dinner,' she writes. 'He gives us wonderful vignettes of the Sarkozys' fake marital displays and of being given a tour around Rome's equivalent of No 10 by [Silvio] Berlusconi. When they come to his bedroom he points at a Renaissance two-way mirror above the bed and with his characteristic grin says, "Well, they didn't have porn channels in those days, did they?"'
She was no Boris Johnson fan at first
'It scares the shit out of me that people don’t see [Johnson] as the calculating machine he really is,' she writes, when he was made Foreign Secretary. Later, after a dinner at No. 10 when he was Prime Minister, she has changed her mind, saying: 'He didn’t want us to go. David [Cameron] was always one for pushing you out the door, in quite a brusque way. For all his hinterland and hot young vixen [Carrie Symonds] Boris just came across as someone who is desperately lonely and unhappy on the inside.'
George Osborne was afraid of playing croquet at Dorneywood House
Writing about when John Prescott, Tony Blair's deputy, moved into the stately home, she reveals: 'There was the outcry over photographs of [Prescott] playing croquet here when Tony Blair was out of the country and the deputy PM was supposed to be in charge. George [Osborne] says he doesn't dare take out the croquet set, which now sits rather famously in the loggia.'
Diary of an MP's Wife: Inside and Outside Power is available for preorder - it is released 1 July 2021.
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