Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A social media post by Conservative MP Esther McVey has …
Jeremy Hunt’s nomination of Esther McVey as his deputy-leader designate – and therefore also deputy-prime minister designate – is certainly something of a surprise. The pairing of the Europhile, One Nation Clarke and the Eurosceptic Thatcherite Redwood was ridiculed as the most bizarre and cynical alliance since the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and most of Redwood’s supporters duly defected to Hague. “I …
