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Bob’s your writer

The former foreign minister is being attacked for being a quirky, witty and irreverent diarist

19 April 2014

9:00 AM

19 April 2014

9:00 AM

Everyone can quote Winston Churchill’s (somewhat disputed) zinger to the effect that while he would be sober in the morning, his chastiser would still be ugly, but I prefer another tale from the same terrain: that of the Temperance League lady who told the Prime Minister he had consumed, during his tenure, enough alcohol to half fill the church hall in which they stood.

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