I was chatting to someone who knows her really well. She has a good sense of humour and is a pretty decent person overall, according to him.
I wonder if it is another case of the system we have in our frontline politics, the whipping, the media, the disproportionate power of a rather extreme Tory base, that makes some of these Tory MP's do or say some ill judged insincere things.
Sayeeda Warsi was appalling in government, as was Soubry and Javid, but once they are out of the cabinet or no longer have ambitions to get there, they suddenly seem like reasonable people rather than complete strangers to decency, empathy and compassion.