David Cameron and George Osborne were snooty and found it difficult to understand people from less privileged backgrounds, according to the former chairman of the 1922 Committee.
Asked by Camilla Tominey if it was fair to say he found the pair to be snooty, Lord Graham Brady told GB News: “A little bit snooty, perhaps.
“They found it a bit difficult to understand people like me and they certainly found it very difficult to understand about how very important to somebody like me the grammar schools are. For me, that was how I got on in life.
“It was the obvious, successful route to social mobility, and it was for them, something that could be treated quite casually.”
Brady, the author of a new book about his time as an MP, titled “Kingmaker”, also said another former Prime Minister, Theresa May, liked to take credit for other people’s work.
He said: “That’s something that goes back to when, a long time ago, when we were in opposition and I was on her shadow team.
“That was just a fact. There were opportunities that came in, media bids. She thought she should do them all.
“And of course, she was very ambitious, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”
Lord Brady also said he stayed inside 10 Downing Street after telling Liz Truss she had to resign, to avoid questions from journalists.
He said: “I didn’t have to stay, but I offered to stay. And again, [because of] the odd experience that I had of doing this on more than one occasion, I was very much aware that if I walked out of the front door of Number 10, there would be 200 journalists there and cameras, and asking you, ‘what have you discovered?’
“So I said, it’d be much easier if I can either have a car to take me back to the Palace of Westminster, which of course is very close by, but it’s the only way you can get there without being in public, or if you prefer, I’m happy to stay in the building until you’ve made the statement.
“I think she realised her time was up. I had the sense that she was quite relieved. Obviously, she’d been under intense pressure for some weeks.
“I commented on the previous Prime Minister’s Questions that she’d been through, and I saw her immediately after that as well.
“I congratulated her on simply getting through it, because it was torrid.”
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