Jaqui Smith Admits Her Ineptitude

“Jacqui Smith has admitted she was not up to being Home Secretary – and should have been given some proper training before she was handed the job.

Ms Smith, who is likely to be remembered for claiming expenses for a porn film watched by her husband, said any success she had was down to luck rather than skill. She added: ‘When I became Home Secretary I’d never run a major organisation. I hope I did a good job but if I did it was more by luck than by any kind of development of skills. I think we should have been better trained.I think there should have been more induction.’

When asked by Total Politics magazine if she had worried she was not up to the job, she replied: ‘Every single time I was appointed to a ministerial job I thought that. I didn’t sleep for a week in 1999 when I got my ministerial job.’”

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