‘I could hear the Camerons sniggering at us’ – Sarah Vine’s How Not to Be a Political Wife, digested by John Crace

Michael Gove’s ex on her compassionate pieces for the Daily Mail, struggling to survive on an MP’s salary, doing Sam Cam’s ironing and becoming a laughing stock after BrexitI thought long and hard for three seconds about writing this memoir. I’ve not done so to settle old scores but because I want to settle old scores. A chance to relive broken friendships, dirty deals and to unconsciously act out my passive-aggressive fantasies on my ex-husband. In taking myself down I w