TORY politicians have never looked so good. Thanks to society magazine Tatler, 10 young Conservatives billed as the party’s stars of the future were treated to a makeover, transforming them from dour political animals to fashionable clothes horses.
Tatler says the photo shoot, involving several parliamentary candidates in marginal seats up and down the country, proves “David Cameron’s Notting Hill Toryism reaches further than leafy W11″.
The men wore Gieves & Hawkes, Crombie and Moschino, while the women wriggled into dresses by the likes of Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli.
Tatler suggests that the 20-and 30-somethings will one day constitute a Conservative Cabinet.
Nicola Blackwood, 28, who will stand in Oxford West and Abingdon, told the Standard she had felt self-conscious swapping her everyday T-shirt and jeans for a Donna Karan number she haRolex Replica Watchesd bought especially in the sales. ” I was worried about going to the photo shoot as I’m not exactly a Size Zero,” she said, “So I took my own dress as I feared I wouldn’t fit into anything provided by Tatler.” The full article is in the October issue of Tatler, out on Thursday..
AND THEY ARE
1 Shaun Bailey, 37 Prospective parliamentary candidate for Hammersmith. Tipped by Tatler as future home secretary.
Married with a daughter, he grew up and lives in North Kensington. Studied at South Bank University, now runs own youth foundation and has spoken out on knife crime.
2 Mark Clarke, 31 Former chairman of Conservative Future and PPC for Tooting. Tipped as future trade and industry secretary.
Educated at Dulwich College and Durham University where he read ancient, medieval and modern history. Related to Dame Eugenia Charles, the first female prime minister in the Caribbean.
3 Joanne Cash, 38 PPC for Westminster North. Tipped to be a future housing minister. Oxford-educated barrister specialising in media law. Her hobbies include country and western singing and yoga.
4 Annunziata Rees-Mogg, 29 PPC for Somerton and Frome. Tipped to be a future defence secretary. Youngest daughter of former Times editor and Arts Council chairman Lord Rees-Mogg. A journalist who has written leaders for the Daily Telegraph. Her fiance recently served in Iraq.
5 Peter Lyburn, 24 Youngest ever Tory to stand for the Scottish Parliament in 2006. Tipped as future environment secretary.
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6 Charlotte Leslie, 29 PPC for Bristol North West. Tipped as future education secretary. Oxford-educated surfer and swimmer who has written a report for David Camerons favourite think tank, Policy Exchange, and previously worked on TV programmes including the Weakest Link.
7 Jeremy Brier, 27 PPC for Luton North. Tipped as future chancellor Replica Hermes Hermes Briefcases.
Commercial barrister with a double first in English from Cambridge who quotes Middlemarch as his inspiration for social policy.
Enjoys cooking, Elgar and Fawlty Towers.
8 Nicola Blackwood, 28 PPC for Oxford West and Abingdon. Tipped as future foreign secretary. Trained classical opera singer, with degrees from Oxford and Cambridge who is a daughter of South African anti-apartheid activist who fled the country.
9 Helen Whately, 32 PPC for Kingston and Surbiton. Tipped as future health secretary. Married and expecting her first child, she is a former national dressage champion educated at Westminster and Oxford. After teaching in Nepal for a year, she is now a management consultant Gucci Watches.
10 Kulveer Ranger, 33 Director of transport policy for Boris Johnson and former party vice-chairman for cities. Tipped as future transport secretary. Studied architecture at UCL. The part-time DJs heroes include Mrs Thatcher and Gandhi. Headhunted by the Mayor after his involvement with the Oyster card.