By involving his family members, the prime minister is undermining democratic accountability
Carrie Symonds has been through many of the standard tribulations of the first lady. Yes, she’s been accused of undue influence, but no more than Cherie Blair was, or Hillary Clinton, or indeed, anyone with the audacity to be female in such a very public way.
Yet this week’s storm – she is said to be in open combat with Dominic Cummings, the pair vying to see whose vision would prevail for the cabinet reshuffle – didn’t seem to belong to the modern era so much as the early modern. It was Cardinal Richelieu fighting Marie de’ Medici, Henrietta Maria beefing with just about everyone – storms remembered not for the personalities within them, but as indicators of dissatisfaction with the authority above them.
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