Lady Warsi was already a controversial minister before she quit over Tory policy on Gaza. As she launches a new social mobility drive,shes as forthright approximately her party’s failings as ever – from old Etonians at the top to bullying at the bottomOn the evening of the day Sayeeda Warsi resigned from the cabinet, in protest at the government’s policy on Gaza, and her father called her and told her she could near back to work with him. There was a sense that her tall-profile stint in public life was over and she could accumulate back to normal – or as normal as one can be with a life peerage. “I’ve spoken to colleagues who almost grieve approximately leaving ministerial office,” she says. “Having power taken away from you must feel very different to giving it back. I believe I was very lucky. I had a huge world to go back to. Politics was not my social life. I didn’t invent it a way of life.” Related: Lady Warsi launches bitter assault on coalition strategy towards Muslims Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com