Rudd’s statement on the Windrush scandal:
“… While Rudd had been on her feet, her parliamentary private secretary, Rachel Maclean, had been busy handing out a list of tame questions she would like Tory MPs to ask her. It hadn’t taken her long. Apart from four other Home Office ministers who had been instructed to turn up and were sitting miserable and stoney-faced beside her, there were fewer than 20 Conservative backbenchers in the Commons for this latest humiliation.
And even they were fairly muted in their support, with only Hugo Swire declaring his undying love. Shares in Rudd as the next prime minister have nosedived in the past week. Just about the only thing keeping her in post is the sense that if she goes, then May might fall with her. …”
East Devon Watch 
Yes – well despite Hugo having worked for Theresa May as a junior minister at the Home Office (before becoming a minister at the Foreign Office) – or more likely because he had previously worked for her – one of Theresa’s first actions after becoming PM was to fire Hugo and send him off to the back benches.
So having been jilted by Theresa, we should perhaps not be surprised by him switching his affections to Amber Rudd and “declaring his undying love for her”. Besides which, his frequent visits to the Middle East for proboscis tanning sessions has meant he is exceedingly well prepared to stand up in the House of Commons and provide over the top, sycophantic endorsements of her brilliance.
What a contrast between Hugo’s willingness and enthusiasm to fight for Amber Rudd to help her keep her job and the lack-lustre (or even non-existent) efforts he makes to fight for the jobs of his constituents (for example in the tourism industry where he has asked questions in Parliament about tourism in the Middle East but says little or nothing about tourism in East Devon).
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