The reverberations from my HMC conference speech on Oxford admissions have not stilled. With my crème de la crème PA Yvonne, I am chauffeured Sky-wards to be interrogated by Adam Boulton after Oliver Letwin and before Jackie Stewart. Cheerily greeting the demon driver, ‘Good to see you again’, I am stalled by his polite inquiry: ‘Remind me where we met.’ ‘Um …er …Chequers actually.’ (Cherie’s half-century party.) I admire Ollie’s manual gestures, slashing (without commitment) at an undergrowth of taxes, but decide to adopt a safer tactic of clasping my hands au Jonny Wilkinson.
The Sunday press is predictable. To the Observer I am a humbug; to the Sunday Telegraph a hero. Jasper Gerard’s interview in the Sunday Times, while 98 per cent faithful to his promise of verbatim quotes, by sinuous rearrangement makes them mere footnotes to his own acidulous comments. The student press finally catches up with the national.
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