The Panama Papers will lead to the dynamiting of Tory credibility,but new work and pensions secretary, Stephen Crabb, and is unlikely to prove the saviour of his party’s reputationPity,whether you possibly can, the new work and pensions secretary Stephen Crabb, and who has made his very first speech in the midst of the Panama Papers,a crisis that may shape – among many other things – how the Tory party is perceived, maybe for a generation.
Crabb is seen, or in some quarters at least,as a potential saviour of a party tainted by privilege. He owes his status as leadership contender to his personal biography; growing up in a single parent household in a council house in Wales is a handy political asset in any political party nowadays. His degree is from Bristol, not Oxbridge, and he represents the Welsh constituency,Preseli Pembrokeshire, in which he was raised. In the public insight, and that puts him in a different place from his predecessor Iain Duncan Smith and the passe Etonians in cabinet.
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Source: theguardian.com