JANE CLIFTON: When Your Old Boss Hangs Around

JANE CLIFTON: When Your Old Boss Hangs Around
One-time opponents: now just trying to be helpful...
Jane Clifton
There’s a scene in Pride and Prejudice in which a Bennett sister is tunelessly monopolising the family piano and her father, marshalling immense tact, tells her: “You have delighted us long enough.”It’s the sort of thing that should be said more often, and perhaps a little more forcefully, to our ex-prime ministers – along with Mr Bennett’s corollary: “Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.” Once we had the option of packing our ex-PMs off to diplomatic postings or to be Governors-G...

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