‘Sorry, darling, but I’ve decided you’re not genetically suitable to be part of a breeding programme, so I’m going to chop you up and feed you to the lions.’
At the end of the last Parliament, I was the only MP who had previously been in the Lobby – the elite cartel of political journalists, who rejoice in having a parliamentary pass (I was once the chief political correspondent of the Times). I used to be in the Press Gallery looking down at the