No privacy and no power – there’s no way I’d be an MP

Minette Marrin

On the day of her well-deserved downfall last week, the MP Julie Kirkbride published an article attempting to explain herself and her expenses. It reminded me of Cherie Blair’s unfortunate comment to the cameras, when tearfully apologising for the episode of the Bristol flats and the conman, saying she had too many mumsy balls in the air to get everything right.

Kirkbride, according to her own account, has a vast number of mumsy balls in the air, which explains her high-maintenance requirements, and she is now worried about the millions of working mothers who, like her, might aspire to political office. “What effect,” she asks, “will stories like mine have on mothers who aspire to be MPs?”

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