Forget every other reading matter – put down your 250th anniversary copy of Pride and Prejudice and toss Bill Clinton’s thriller, First Gentleman, to one side – because the required reading right now is the extracts now being published from Sarah Vine’s memoir, How Not to be a Political Wife.
It’s about politics in the Cameron era, from the then Mrs Michael Gove, wife of the Education Secretary, who, as such, was the best thing about the Cameron administration. It’s notionally political, but it’s just as much social and personal. If you want proof that the personal is the political, look no further. Politics is about issues, of course; it’s also about competitiveness (Boris), entitlement (Dave Cameron), personal loyalties (Sam Cam) and revenge (T. May).
