Rising star Minister Victoria Atkins’s promising political career is feared to have hit the rocks after her stinging criticism of the Prime Minister’s fiancée was overheard in the Commons tea room
Rising star Minister Victoria Atkins’s promising political career is feared to have hit the rocks after her stinging criticism of the Prime Minister’s fiancée was overheard in the Commons tea room.
The high-flying Home Office minister is said to have observed that Carrie Symonds could not be trusted because she ‘stole another woman’s husband’, multiple sources told The Mail on Sunday.
It is understood that her barbed comment was made to a group of primarily female Tory MPs but were uttered so loudly that they were heard by others in the room.
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