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Notting Hill Nobody

Tamzin Lightwater

Wednesday, 14th November 2007

Tamzin's unique take on the week

Monday

This Aitken business is all v confusing. Has led to heated debates about some extremely odd-sounding things that happened ten years ago. I thought Mr Blair invented ‘sleaze’! But it seems there were all sorts of shocking goings-on in the 1990s under poor Mr Major. Poppy knows all about them, of course, and thinks it terribly amusing that I don’t. Well, excuse me if I wasn’t reading Parliament Today under the duvet in my chalet in Switzerland when I was 18! I guess I just had too much fun to be getting on with — not to mention upmarket catering. (It’s not easy helping large groups of people to burn their own fondue, you know).

It was hardly surprising that I embarrassed myself this morning by asking who Piers Merchant was. Nigel was quite sweet about it. Looked at me in fatherly way and said: ‘Honestly, Lightwater. You’re like a young Teresa Gorman sometimes.’ Obviously, I couldn’t ask who Teresa Gorman was, but I hope it’s someone nice.

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