I suspect the little inmates' facility at cards owes something to Beachcomber's Narkover.
Saturday
Did you see that picture of the prime minister shaking hands on a bet with the detestable Piers Morgan? Hardly statesmanlike behaviour, was it? You’d never have caught Mr Gladstone having a Yankee on the Berlin Conference on Africa, the Anglo Egyptian War, the Naval Estimates and the Panjdeh incident, would you?
In truth, though, I have long been aware of a certain innocence in Sunak when it comes to gambling. When he was a newly elected MP, I invited him to visit my Home for Well-Behaved Orphans, and then made the mistake of leaving him alone with the young inmates. By the time I rescued him he had lost all his spare change at three-card brag and was about to surrender his shirt. Of course, I had to pretend to be furious, but there were extra Buns for tea.
- The former headquarters of the Association of Liberal Councillors
- “Ed doesn’t approve of thinking"
- The Cricklewood Crinkles and the Wolverhampton Wotsits
- The noted woman crime novelist Dame Agatha Mousetrap
- Mountains of unsold Stilton
