The Jockey Club
On 24 June 2020, Rose Paterson was found dead in the woods near her home in Shropshire. Her death, originally treated as unexplained, was later ruled to have been at her own hands. This began a chain of events that eighteen months later sees the government her and her husband devoted the later part of her life supporting in complete freefall, mired in scandal after scandal, with questions now being posed as to the tenability of the position of the Prime Minister himself. And the largest of these scandals is one Mrs. Paterson was personally connected to, yet no journalist will touch it with a barge pole. This is the Jockey Club. Paterson was born into an aristocratic family. Her father was the 4th Viscount Ridley and her maternal grandfather was the 11th Earl of Scarborough. Both of these aristocrats had been involved with the Conservative party, with the 11th Earl of Scarborough serving as the MP for the now Labour stronghold of York. A common aristocratic hobby is of course hors...