His university-educated opponents will view him as a relic of the past. I see his refusal to stay on message as the shape of things to come.
They should have to show that changes to the civil service’s departmental structures serve the public interest rather than party political or personnel management goals.
His life story is beginning to bear an uncanny resemblance to that of Harold Davidson, who was eventually mauled to death by a lion.
“He was a tremendously polite and courteous man,” said Baroness Williams on the Daily Politics.