In Yes, Prime Minister, Sir Humphrey Appleby was the Cabinet Secretary. I am now older than the occupant of that post in real life. So I warmly congratulate Simon Case on his appointment. Whenever I am older than someone who makes it to one of these positions, then a person who cannot be named for legal reasons is even older again.
The same is true of another half a dozen potential Labour candidates at North West Durham. Older than the Secretary of State for Health. Older than the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Older than the Cabinet Secretary. Older than two out of this year's three candidates for Leader of the Labour Party. Far older than the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Far older than the Conservative MP for North West Durham.
He Who Must Not Be Named was going to be Prime Minister, you know. I was "unelectable", but he was eventually going to be Leader of the Labour Party and, since there was going to be a Labour Government forever, Prime Minister. That was not a joke.
Or, at least, it was not a joke to him, or to his patroness, or to her claque. But as things are turning out, then he may not have to wait for the next Parliament before, like me, he will be older than the Prime Minister. Like me, without ever having been elected above Parish level.
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