Going for the youth vote! Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty reads to schoolchildren while wearing a floral dress in No10 on World Book Day as PM grapples with how to beat Labour at the ballot box on Tory party awayday
- She read to them from Joseph Coelho’s poetry book Werewolf Club Rules!
- Rishi Sunak was away in Berkshire for the day with most of his Tory MPs
Brexiteers are not the only ones reading the small print this week.
As the DUP and backbench Tories search for reasons to throw out her husband’s Brexit plan, Rishi Sunak‘s wife settled down for some more fun reading in No10 this morning
Akshata Murty invited a group of London schoolchildren into Downing Street for a reading session in one of its state rooms.
There was plenty of space in the working building as Rishi Sunak was away in Berkshire for the day with most of his Tory MPs, working out how to beat Labour at the next election.
In pictures released by No10 she was seen reading to them from Joseph Coelho’s poetry book Werewolf Club Rules!
Akshata Murty invited a group of London schoolchildren into Downing Street for a reading session in one of its state rooms.
In pictures released by No10 she was seen reading to them from Joseph Coelho’s poetry book Werewolf Club Rules!
Mr Sunak is trying to reinvigorate the party as it languishes some 20 points behind Labour in the polls after a year of three prime ministers and a series of economic and sleaze scandals.
The Tories have booked the entire £400-per-night Fairmont Hotel for lectures, drinks receptions and a dinner with the PM, where the 355 or so MPs can dine on Hereford beef, Atlantic cod and roast Scottish salmon.
It is understood Liz Truss, who was briefly in No 10 last year, will not attend. And there is currently no sign either of Boris Johnson.
In a speech at lunchtime, the ex-prime minister tore into his successor’s deal, saying he would find it ‘very difficult’ to vote for it as it still makes Northern Ireland abide by EU law – in a move that could cast doubt on his attendance.
