One of the bookies\u2019 favourites to become the UK\u2019s next Prime Minister is Tom Tugendhat MP, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n
Below we reveal some interesting facts about one of the front-runners in the contest.<\/p>\n
Can we really have a Frenchman in No.10 Downing Street?<\/p>\n
We are compelled to ask a serious question. Is it remotely credible \u2013 or indeed right \u2013 to have as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom a man who holds dual French-British nationality? Indeed, should not all Members of the United Kingdom Parliament be British and British alone?<\/p>\n
Secondly, is it appropriate to have a PM whose French wife works for Emmanuel Macron\u2019s government?<\/b><\/p>\n
Mme Anissia Morel-Tugendhat has the absolute right to pursue her career working for the French state as she wishes. The problem arises, however, when she is also the wife of someone who would inhabit No.10 Downing Street.<\/p>\n
These are serious issues<\/p>\n
Facts4EU.Org does not often write about the UK\u2019s domestic political scene, except when it comes to Brexit. Nor do we normally write about the personal lives of politicians.<\/p>\n
When faced with the choice of who is going to be the UK\u2019s next Prime Minister, however, things are slightly different. This is particularly true when some of the difficult decisions about delivering Brexit in full have yet to be made – and when Rejoiners are massing to drag us back into the EU piece-by-piece.<\/p>\n
Now we know why Tom Tugendhat was a Remainer <\/p>\n
Whilst Tom Tugendhat has said he now accepts Brexit, we must ask \u201cOn what terms?\u201d<\/b><\/i> Here is a man who was an ardent Remainer \u2013 unsurprisingly given his own and his immediate family\u2019s circumstances. <\/p>\n
He was one of those who continued to work to keep the UK as closely aligned to the EU as possible, long after the largest democratic vote in British history should have told him to do the opposite.<\/p>\n
Lack of experience<\/p>\n
Tom Tugendhat undoubtedly has experience in foreign affairs. However he has never held ministerial office, let alone been a Cabinet Minister. <\/p>\n
As far as we can see he has no experience of home affairs, nor of economic matters. At a time when we are undergoing a cost of living crisis, a rapidly escalating problem of illegal immigration, energy security worries, as well as confronting serious issues around freedom of speech and \u2018cancel culture\u2019 in our society, where is the \u2018real world experience\u2019 which he told the BBC he has?<\/p>\n
Undoubtedly he is an intelligent man. He would be strong on Putin, on China, and on Iran. The problem is that this is as far as it goes.<\/p>\n
And for us, having someone who holds French nationality in No.10 is an absolute red line.<\/b><\/p>\n
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