Anyone casting their eye over David Cameron’s 12-page recommended summer reading list for MPs should have been dismayed to find one crucial omission.
It’s all very well for the shadow cabinet to hunker down in Puglia with Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis, but what about a truly seminal tale for our times, one that features the credit crunch, stout family values and a robust Tory work ethic, topped off with sassy Louboutin heels?
Louise Bagshawe, best-selling chick-lit author, mother of three, former Labour Party member and now the Tories’ “A-list” parliamentary candidate for Corby and East Northamptonshire, grins broadly at the idea of David Willetts, Francis Maude et al earnestly working their way through Glitz.
