MixTogether & Friends

James Forsyth at the Spectator magazine’s Coffee House blog has tipped Sayeeda Warsi for a more prominent Conservative role:

Certainly, the Tories lack a shadow Minister for the Today Programme, someone who can be relied to go on when it is a bad morning for the party and deal robustly with a tough interview. This is a position the Tories will need to fill before the campaign gets under way…

I suspect that Sayeeda Warsi might soon be auditioned for this role. Andy Coulson is very impressed by her media skills. To a leadership that is sensitive about the perception that it is too white, too male and too posh, the idea of having a Muslim Yorkshire woman act as one of the party’s main spokesmen is particularly appealing.

Baroness Warsi does not just deserve this role as a box-ticking exercise.

She was the best-received panellist on THAT edition of Question Time with Nick Griffin, and her response to the egg attack in Luton was equally convincing.

James Forsyth might also like to add that she is taking a keen interest in ‘honour’ crimes and mixed relationships, which should cause a stir in seats where Labour rely on older (and more traditional) immigrants for votes. Warsi appeals to younger Asian voters, especially women, for whom the old bleating of ‘Tories bad, Labour gooooooood’ has less effect these days.