Who doesn't enjoy a politician with an acerbic wit?
In The Gathering Storm, Churchill gives an account of a tedious farewell dinner in 1938 for the German Ambassador which he ends, deadpan, with the words: "This was the last time I saw Herr von Ribbentrop before he was hanged."
Who amongst our political reporting class is not nostalgic for a Lange press conference?
Who in our political reporting class does not keep scanning the horizon for a successor?
