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    Maverick to the end

    Apr 17, 2022 3 minutes
    JANE CLIFTON

    However brilliantly she may do in her future career, any government is likely to think twice before offering Louisa Wall a damehood.

    She has just given a masterclass in revenge against her former colleagues, despite them having rewarded her service with a plum job, personally tailored to her strengths: Pacific Gender Equality Ambassador.

    In the grand tradition of hiding rotten fish in the curtains and dead rodents under the floorboards, the MP’s two-fingered salute to Parliament has left a puzzling pong.

    Not only was it damaging, given Labour’s deteriorating re-election chances, the attack was also incoherent. Wall

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