Yet by far the greater irritation must have been the attacks upon her at the more worldly level prompted by her espousal of the human-rights agenda. At the mundane level she had to endure the annual family holiday photo call in Tuscany, trying cheerfully to play the wife and mother, smiling through gritted teeth despite her detestation of the media and all the demands they have made on her and her family since she was obliged to move with them into public life. So it is easy to imagine her exasperation at finding herself in the public spotlight last week on two counts. All that and the mother of four who happens to be married to the Prime Minister.
She is a barrister at the very top of her profession, earning a fortune and hugely in demand. She is establishing a new set of chambers in order to specialise in human-rights legislation and deal with the litigation that is inevitable when the European Convention on Human Rights is incorporated into British law on 2 October. She is not just any old clever-clogs lawyer who runs a family and has constantly to separate her briefs from the family washing. But she is also, of course, much more than that.
Social booth you may not have permissions professional#
She is both the successful professional and the supportive wife and mother. She is a funny woman with a good sense of timing, such as is required of barristers, and no doubt a ripple of sympathetic laughter ran through the room at this remark. In front of an audience of academics in Downing Street last year, the Prime Minister's wife, Cherie Blair - standing in unexpectedly for her husband who had been obliged to dash off and run the country - observed with a degree of detached ironic amusement that she personally identified with a social condition relating to the role of women in society known as the Allerednic syndrome, which had earlier been described to those present.
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