Didn’t really know what to make of this. Far too long; should have been edited down to c300 pages rather than 500.
Sasha Swire is the daughter of Jon Nott, a Thatcherite (undistinguished, as I remember) government minister, a bit of an ‘It girl', married to Hugo Squire, a wealthy old Etonian (undistinguished) Tory junior minister, mainly under Cameron.
The family are great fiends of the Camerons, whose coterie are referred to as ‘cameroonies’ if I remember correctly. Compared in the press to Alan Clark’s diaries (which I have read but can’t remember,) it is certainly very rude and scurrilous about many (mainly) Tory MP’s. But it is mainly the voice of her husband (H), and seems to be band-standing a lot of the time; she is a privileged woman—socially and by marriage part of the English upper class—and her opinions, apart from controversial value, are of little interest (although she does have a slightly improbable sympathy for the Palestinian cause).
But very rude and negative about (inter- alia) Gove, Teresa May (referred to as Old Ma May), and George Osborn, latterly after the electoral defeat.
A Daily Mail style insider’s commentary on the politics of the last 20 years, but not much else to it. Are we impressed with a brief flirtation with Cameron at a party on 18 September 2019 when he says "sounds as if we had an affair, doesn’t it?"? Her comment is: "And I am thinking, I wish!". Sums it up really.
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