‘Samantha is actually very unconventional,’ said David Cameron, a few months ago. ‘She went to day school.’
I first saw that the other day, quoted in an article by the Independent’s Johann Hari. I love it. I can’t think why I hadn’t come across it before. It’s not quite up there with Jacob Rees-Mogg at his best (‘I do wish you wouldn’t keep going on about my nanny.

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