Despite Penny Mordaunt being a Tory {{spit}}, both Mrs Backwoodsperson and I were impressed with her performance. We thought she was very smartly dressed, and carried out her duties flawlessly and with grace. Not really surprising I suppose, as she’s ex-RN and still a member of the RNVR.

There’s a brilliant pic of her going round on SM, with the sword photoshopped into a huge kebab, and titled ‘Penny Mordaunt carrying the Kebab of State’! :-)