Tom Tugendhat? How many people must have turned down Shadow Foreign Secretary, that poor Kemi Badenoch has had to settle for him? What do his fans find attractive about this Saudi shill, anyway? They do not normally go for German names, for dual British and French nationals, for French wives, for French mothers, for family ties to the heart of the French legal and diplomatic elites, for British uncles who were First Vice-Presidents of the European Commission, or for votes in favour of Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement on all three occasions.
As for Tugendhat's military record in Afghanistan, which supposedly entitles him to demand fighting to the last drop of other people's blood, he was officially deployed as a TA schoolie before being openly acknowledged as a spook 13 days later. When he was "helping to set up the National Security Council of Afghanistan and the government in Helmand Province", then he was classified as a civilian. All in all, he has the strong whiff of Captain Darling in Blackadder Goes Fourth.
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