PM happy to back Kinnock girl as EU boss
DAVID Cameron is willing to back Neil Kinnock’s daughter-in-law in her bid to become the next President of Europe at crunch talks in Brussels today.
Government sources last night said Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt is one of a handful of leaders he thinks he could work with as he tries to renegotiate Britain’s membership of the European Union.
She is best known here for posing for a flirtatious selfie photograph with Mr Cameron and Barack Obama at Nelson Mandela’s funeral earlier this year.
She leads Denmark’s social democrats and is married to Lord Kinnock’s son Stephen.
A Government source said the 47-year-old had forged a ‘very strong relationship’ with Mr Cameron and could ‘work with us on the reforms we seek in Europe’.
None of the candidates for the presidency have declared their hand because most are already holding public office.