Dressing for the job you want rather than the one you have usually involves scrubbing up rather than down, but Akshata Murty – millionaire heiress, former fashion designer and wife of the prime minister – is trying on a new sort of power look in front of the Downing Street mirrors as she assumes the unsought role of this country’s most scrutinised clothes horse.
Not for her the millennial midis favoured by Carrie Johnson, or the savvy rented pieces that come with eco-friendly credentials and none of the designer price tag-related poll slumps. Nor, we presume, will the new incumbent of the goldfish bowl, as Cherie Blair called it, be buying her jewellery from Claire’s Accessories à la Liz Truss, given that Murty, 42, and
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