Tuesday 14 June 2011

Right Honourable, Indeed

First elected in 1959, and Father of the House despite having had a brief break (1964-1966) when he had lost his seat because even that was so long ago, Sir Peter Tapsell has just been appointed to the Privy Council. Quite right, too. For he is a Keynesian, an anti-neoconservative, a Commonwealth enthusiast, and therefore an unyielding Eurosceptic.

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