A Woman Mp Of Spirit..

[Khandro]

.. and fibre - not to mention Guts, would you not agree?
https://order-order.com/2018/05/24/tory-quits-government-to-fight-for-brexit/

[Old_Geezer]

Bully for her.

[Baldric]

Guido Fawkes says . . . . . . . . yet again

[cassa333]

What is PPS for?

[Canary42]

PPS = Parliamentary Private Secretary (unpaid role supporting one or more Ministers).

[Gromit]

I think you may be over hyping this decision.

A parliamentary private secretary job is unpaid, and involves as lttle or as much work as the MP wants to put it. They are there to report to Ministers what they hear in parliament from other parliamentarians. This is so Ministers can guage their own popularity (or lack of) amongst there colleagues. It is basically feedback.

Jenkyns had only been doing her PPS role for a few weeks. But part of the Code is supposed to be loyalty to the Government and Prime Minister. It is this muzzling aspect that Jenkyns is wanting to shed by resigning. She wants to criticise May (for her poor performance on Brexit) but she is unable to do whilst she is a PPS.

If anything, this is further evidence that May has lost control of her party, if a PPS would rather resign than support the Government she belongs to.

[youngmafbog]

Useless May lost control of her Party and most repspect from Tory voters ages ago.

Hardly surprising this lady does not want to be shackled and whether hype or not she at least has stood by her principles.

[ToraToraTora]

well they do need a kick up the April to get us moving out of the EUSSR asap

[dannyk13]

A pity that more of the MP's aren't of the same mind.

[scooping]

Good for her.

[scooping]

Gromit: it's another straw on the camel's back...

[Gromit]

Being a PPS is usually a time serving exercise for ambitious MPs. A spot of PPSing can get you noticed in high places, and help your future career.
But Jenkyns represents a very marginal constituency. She beat Ed Balls to win the seat from Labour. Perhaps she realises that her future as an MP is fairly insecure, and so is not bothering doing voluntary work for the party, if she won’t be around to reap the benefit.