The Magician's Assistant

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She eventually lost out to Mr Sunak and Liz Truss in the last round, before Conservative members had the final say. In a traditional male-female double act where the man is considered to be the magician and the woman only a decorative mover of props, there is enormous scope for misdirection and playing with presence and status.

Instead of direct speech, she communicates with the audience through eye contact, gestures and mime, meaning they don’t look to her for detailed information about what is going on as the narrative of a trick progresses. Ms Mordaunt will inevitably be tied to the Truss premiership to some extent, as she served in the Cabinet during the PM’s tumultuous premiership, which saw market chaos at one stage threaten to trigger a financial crisis in the UK.

McGee attended Our Lady Immaculate RC Primary School in Tolworth, followed by Tolworth Girls' School, a secondary school also in Tolworth.

McGee was a finalist in BBC's 2017 Strictly Come Dancing and a winner of the 2019 Christmas Special, and as of January 2018 is a recurring member of the Loose Women panel. That series continued until 1994 and regularly attracted audiences of 15 million in the UK and was sold to 43 countries. Magic instruction books, DVDs and downloads invariably feature a male demonstrator and methods are created with male clothing and accessories as standard tools – so tricks and methods need to be adapted before they can be used on stage by female magicians. This can be done most obviously through switching roles, but this is harder than it sounds, as the practicalities of performing stage tricks are also gendered in subtle and not so subtle ways.A University of Reading graduate, she worked on George W Bush’s presidential campaigns and was a Conservative party staffer during William Hague’s leadership.