Deidre for President

As it’s Friday, I’ll let you in on a little past-time we have here at Spectator Towers.  My colleague Mary Wakefield and I often instigate ‘Dear Deidre’ reading sessions – whereby one of us reads out the letters sent into the Sun’s resident agony aunt, Deidre Sanders, while others say how they’d respond or guess at Deidre’s actual response.  Sounds tragic, I know, but it’s fun nonetheless – and oddly heart-warming too.

These Dear Deidre sessions usually end with us commenting that the Tories should hire her as some kind of adviser on “family breakdown”.  After all – with years of experience at this kind of thing – Deidre’s answers tend to be right on the money, and her series of “free leaflets” seems exhaustive too.

But, today, Labour have beaten the Cameroons to it. The Sun reports that:

BRITAIN’S favourite agony aunt has been signed up by the Government to help tackle the divorce crisis.