Just skied from the EU into independent Switzerland. Quite disgracefully, there was no hard border. Not even a line in the snow.
Quentin Letts
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Quentin Letts
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Official account for Quentin Letts, parliamentary sketchwriter. New novel 'Nunc!' now out in paperback.
- Why does Tony Blair feel the need to issue a new-year message? He is not in public office. He is not in parliament. He is not in holy orders.
- Jaded old hack though I be, am haunted by footage of Jacob Rees-Mogg and his young son being so menaced by protestors that he needed a police phalanx. This is the most polite of men, with his kid, for God's sake. Weird, bad days. And still that idiot Letwin wants delay.
- At a Tory association meeting this week in a pretty liberal part of the West Midlands, a friend tentatively said he'd vote for the Brexit party in any European Parliament elections. Brief silence. Then a show of hands as 90 per cent of th meeting (chairwoman included) agreed.
- Why on earth should Mark Field apologise? He played a blinder.
- Shortly before Christmas, Eurosceptic Tory Sir E Leigh surprised the House by expressing 'unfashionable support' for T May and saying he might support her deal. Today the same Leigh was made a Privy Counsellor. Pure coincidence.
- Sir Keir Starmer misses chance to show any generosity to departing PM. One of the most grindingly acidic speeches I have seen in Commons.
- Guido Fawkes's allegation today about Panorama today could do with a speedy response from @BBC bigshots.
- Sir Patrick 'Star Trek' Stewart calls Brexit 'the saddest, grimmest thing to have happened to me since I have been involved in politics'. Did we miss his election to public office?
- Judges blew their hallowed status with the Supreme Court ruling and will now be fair game for public scrutiny
- It may be time to straighten that knee.
- A couple who threaten to give a 'tell-all' interview to US TV might find it harder to argue that their privacy is imperilled by newspaper reporters.
- Sir Keir Starmer issues statement starting with 'today my government...' Naughty. 'My government' is a phrase for the Monarch. PMs normally say 'the government'.
- Some say that 400 MPs may have to queue 'almost a kilometre' in order to vote. Why not say 'half a mile'? It's more concise and more accurate.
