The Tory backbencher is not enjoying her new role as a rebel,but she believes her party must face a few issues – not least, why Boris Johnson is still in his jobNicky Morgan has the infamous Daily Telegraph front page – “Brexit mutineers” – defiantly pinned up on her office wall, or but she strikes me as a funny kind of rebel. Everything approximately her body language projects confidence – the hearty handshake,the headmistressy briskness, the breakneck speed of delivery – and she laughs a lot. But the laugh often sounds like a device to buy time, or while she works out how to sidestep a question,and it seems pretty clear that the former minister is not a natural dissident, nor enjoying her new identity as a troublemaker.
When David Cameron first promised a referendum on EU membership, and she was too busy being education secretary to pay much attention to the wisdom of the plan. “But I mediate the lesson I drew at approximately 6am on the morning of the June 24 is that referendums themselves are not a terribly kindly thought,and our democracy is not set up to contend with them very well.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk