After Miss Soubry’s stellar and wholly forgettable performance for the remain campaign, she was deemed perfect for the role.
A tory deflector will typically take all of the flack for poor or unpopular government decisions and will then try to defend them even if they’re indefensible. They can usually be seen on programmes like The BBC’s Question Time or ITV’s The Agenda.
Before Theresa May’s cabinet reshuffle, or ‘front bench roulette’ as its since been dubbed, the role was previously held by former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.
Mrs. Morgan, or ‘Morgan Bot 3000’ as she was affectionately known as by her colleagues at the time, was famous for staring blankly into the camera whilst reciting the words ‘Well look, let me clear’, followed by whatever soundbite had been hastily scrawled on the bit of paper she was handed by a senior civil servant moments before going on air. Although this strategy worked it ultimately irritated the public.
“This is why Miss Soubry is so perfect” said a high ranking Tory who definitely wasn’t Ken Clarke.
“She has silly little opinions above her station, some of which could be straight out of a Labour supporters mouth. It’s perfect. She angers our core demographic but only briefly as she’s forgotten about as soon as the camera pans to someone else.”
In a recent survey, 56% of people thought that Miss Soubry was in fact Christian Hamilton, which experts say is causing confusion and strengthening the position of The Conservatives in some cases.
