The Tories are my family: this is what I learned as David Cameron’s sister-in-law

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For two decades Emily Sheffield’s life has been shaped by the Conservative Party. Here's her advice to the Starmers, what the Tories should do next - and why she wants to become an MP

For two decades Emily Sheffield’s life has been shaped by the Conservative Party. Here's her advice to the Starmers, what the Tories should do next - and why she wants to become an MPI can remember meeting Margaret Thatcher aged five very clearly. But my memory of the night my sister began her life in Downing Street takes a lot more tugging on tired cells to haul up. Childhood experiences can be like that – they retain that ability to cut through more complex adult layers.

The day begins by rushing out to drop more leaflets where I live, having entered myself into a last-minute by-election , to be one of the local ward councillors. When the Tory campaign director messages to say he just voted for me, I reply at least I will get one vote. It is a Labour stronghold. Some 4,000 leaflets have gone out with my polite entreaty that a vote for me means I will be a singular, strong, experienced voice of opposition against a Labour-led council.

But I do not want to underplay the effect that watching your family dragged through the spotlight has on you personally, and having to stay silent when ridiculous lies do the rounds. Samantha always made sure that as a family she kept everyone’s feet grounded and all of us connected. She entered heavily pregnant, and still deeply mourning her son, Ivan.

The then prime minister catches forty winks before the wedding of Alice, his sister-in-law – pictured in front. Emily posted the photo on Instagram Barack and Michelle Obama greet the Camerons as they arrive for a State Dinner at the White House in 2012 Gillian Keegan, our former education secretary, in West Sussex, wiped out. It shows the respect Jeremy Hunt retains that he kept his seat in Surrey against all the odds. These are not seats that fell because we were not radically right enough, we gave our away our centre ground.

 

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