Theresa May rides again. All that Nick Timothy has to Shadow is David Lammy, but even so. Timothy was May’s special adviser at the Home Office for five years, hardening him into the sworn enemy of the Police that we have recently seen him to be. He briefly left, but he came back to work for May’s Leadership campaign, and he became her Joint Chief of Staff as Prime Minister until she had to sack him and Fiona Hill after her snap General Election had lost the Conservatives their overall majority and beaten Jeremy Corbyn by only 2,227 votes in the right constituencies, even though we now know that the Labour campaign had been sabotaged by the Labour Party’s own Blairite staff.
Speaking of the Blairites, Timothy has teamed up with John Woodcock, to use his maiden name, to complain that politicians were being intimidated if anyone disagreed with them. They want all manner of action against “activist movements”, meaning anyone outside the club. In 2024, Labour was only 3,247 votes behind Timothy for a seat that in 2019 Matt Hancock had held with a majority of 23,194. Now, Labour is nowhere. Having assumed no more opposition than that, Timothy feels terribly intimidated. Just the man for the Justice portfolio.
"hardening him into the sworn enemy of the Police that we have recently seen him to be"
ReplyDeleteYou must be referring to Peter Hitchens, who has long called for the useless leftwing "two-tier" police force to be disbanded. Ever since he charted the nationalisation and desecration of the police under Labour governments in A Brief History of Crime. The modern excuse for a British "police force" would make Robert Peel turn in his grave.
Hitchens was no supporter of Theresa May's Home Office.
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