With the Tories facing losses of up to 500 seats and potentially control of a number of key councils in this week’s local elections, it must feel like climbing Mount Everest if you’re the party’s director of strategy.
So why not head for the real thing instead? The Conservatives were left scratching their heads last week as to the whereabouts of Rachel Maclean, the former MP for Redditch whose reward for losing her seat last year was a peerage and a role in charge of strategy for Kemi Badenoch’s party.
Maclean turned out to be on holiday in the Himalayas with the vital polls looming. In her defence, she said it was booked before last year’s general election. So that’s all right then…
