Ruth to Cabinet: Get behind PM and quit the ‘unedifying squabbles’
RUTH Davidson has urged Cabinet ministers to stop squabbling because ‘sharp elbowing’ one another is doing nothing to help the Tory party.
The Scottish Conservative leader claimed the infighting within her party in London was a ‘really unedifying spectacle’ as she called on everyone to get behind Theresa May as leader.
Miss Davidson made the plea during an interview with a national newspaper, in which she also spoke of her desire to start a family.
The 38-year-old said she is ‘painfully aware’ she is running out of time to have children, as she plans her wedding to long-term partner Jen Wilson, 35.
The couple recently returned from a twoweek break in Ireland after the Scottish Tories’ General Election success, taking 12 seats from the SNP. Since then Miss Davidson has been eyed as a future leader of the UK party, and has been using her new-found muscle to push for a softer Brexit. Yesterday she described the ‘squabbles’ within the Westminster Cabinet as a ‘really unedifying spectacle’.
She told The Sun: ‘The rule should be to get behind the Prime Minister at this time of great national interest. A bit of sharp elbowing around the top table does not help anybody.’
The MSP is planning a ‘small, private wedding’ to Miss Wilson. The ceremony was due to take place last year but was postponed after the couple’s dog was hit by a car, which meant wedding funds were spent instead on vet bills.
Although Miss Davidson one day hopes to become First Minister, she would also like children to be in her future.
She said: ‘I hope to at some point have kids. Although I am painfully aware that I am running out of time. But my partner is younger than me, so there are options.’
Miss Davidson, an ex-Sunday school teacher, also revealed she struggled with her faith when she came out as gay in her mid-twenties.
She said: ‘There are times in your life when you feel closer to God and times when you feel farther away. I found the period of coming out very difficult to align with my faith, but I have found my way back to God.’
TENSIONS between Britain and Ireland intensified last night as Dublin warned it would not ‘design a border for the Brexiteers’.
Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is reported to be pushing for any new customs border to be between Northern Ireland and the UK, not the Republic of Ireland.
Mr Varadkar told reporters in Dublin: ‘What we are not going to do is design a border for the Brexiteers. As far as this government is concerned there shouldn’t be an economic border.’