Ever since the 56 SNP MPs descended on Westminster following the 2015 general election, they have been criticised for failing to master Westminster etiquette — from clapping in the Chamber to taking shortcuts through the Chancellor’s office.
However, is it really the Conservative MPs that are the ones in need of a lesson in good manners? Mr S only asks after Lord Bell — the Tory grandee — let slip, at his Glass Half Full party, what Liam Fox told him Nicola Sturgeon’s nickname was when she was a student at the University of Glasgow. The Evening Standard reports that Bell revealed that the International Trade secretary said they called the First Minister ‘seaweed’. The reason? ‘Not even the tide would take her out.’
Let’s hope Fox displays a bit more diplomacy in the upcoming trade talks…
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