Just before Vicky Pryce was sentenced on Monday, her QC made a plea for clemency on the grounds that the case had already ‘undermined her professional position considerably’. In other words, she’d been punished enough and to send her to prison would be excessive.
But had the judge felt sympathy for Pryce on account of her loss of status, that would have been a good reason to send her to prison, not to give her a suspended sentence. What her QC overlooked is that, for people of a certain class, a spell in jail is actually a good career move, particularly after a public scandal has ended their existing career. Pryce’s chances of being re-employed by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills are now quite slim, but after a few months in Holloway, a cornucopia of new opportunities will open up to her.
Take Jonathan Aitken.
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