My hero: Esther McVey with David Cameron
Rising Tory star Esther McVey has racked up big debts – running her own company.
The Employment Minister recently urged youngsters to be their own boss rather than studying at university and going on to take a job with a large corporation.
Ms McVey, 46, said: “If you have this seed, this idea, this creativity, you want to set up a business, that’s what you should do.”
But now it has been revealed that her own entrepreneurial efforts have plunged her into the red.
The former TV presenter has had to borrow tens of thousands of pounds to bail out a firm she set up before becoming an MP.
She ploughed the money into Making It, a company providing serviced offices – and is still owed £56,847.
The revelations call in to doubt David Cameron’s judgment in handing her a place at the Cabinet table in last week’s reshuffle.
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