A subsequent statement in the House of Commons prompted the usual, tedious tit-for-tat, with Labour blaming the Conservatives for allowing defence spending and readiness to slip… this from a party which not long ago, I recall, wanted to leave NATO and scrap the nuclear deterrent. I recall, when he was showing me and my brother the cabin of a Vulcan bomber, I saw an inverted funnel with a long tube, like the communication pipes on old ocean liners. We had great fun working out the answers: the year ABBA won Eurovision, the year Gordon Brown finally left 10 Downing Street with his wife and children, and the year Ted Heath resigned as Conservative leader.
Author: Alastair Stewart
Published at: 2025-11-22 23:01:03
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