It was a good thing she hadn't taken a sip of the beer that had arrived right as Kieran dropped his figurative bomb on her. "You must be joking." Not that she didn't think Jude would make anything but a spectacular minister; she just didn't think he would ever get there. She wasn't very caught up on the wild world of London politics outside of some of her friends and the suffragette front, but she supposed she shouldn't be all that surprised.

"I wish him the best of luck." She raised her pint at that and took a deep sip. "How's the campaign going?"