Max Hastings -
"His graver vice is cowardice, reflected in a willingness to tell any audience, whatever he thinks most likely to please, heedless of the inevitability of its contradiction an hour later.
"Like many showy personalities, he is of weak character. I recently suggested to a radio audience that he supposes himself to be Winston Churchill, while in reality being closer to Alan Partridge"
The Tories are living up to the origin of their name — outlaw, robber or brigand. They lie. They cheat. And now the knuckle-dragging skip-divers of Radnor and Breconshire re-select a convicted election fraudster as their candidate.
The natural party of crooks, cheats and liars. Completely shameless.
And the forelock-tugging toadies in the north are taken in by any old toff with a plummy accent.
Chris