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TR'sGhost wrote:
I recall someone (the sort if someone who ought to know and had no horse in the race) saying that the outgoing Treasury minister leaving the note in question or something similar for their successor to find, then one day leave in turn or their successor was, up till then, a kind of long-running parliamentary tradition and far from the only one of its kind.
Cameron cynically used what he knew was basically a Westminster in-joke.
It was actually left by Byrne for Philip Hammond who was the Shadow Chief Secretary but Byrne wasn't to know that in the Coalition divide of the spoils Laws was given the job...and the rest is history.
I'd forgotten it was Laws.
Another skunk who we kept getting assured was so vital for everything and so clever his minor faux pas of claiming £40,000 in expenses for non-existent rent because, he claimed, he feared the consequences of coming out so much could be genteelly hand waved away.
