As the nation waits anxiously for UKIP to elect a new leader, friends helpfully tell me over dinner last night how I missed a major political scoop. It seems the previous UKIP leader, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, began his quest for control of his party at another dinner party hosted in the very same North Cornwall parish that is my privilege to call home. This was before he perfected the art of dealing with inquisitive TV reporters with the brilliant "Ah, now you're asking me about policy....I'm afraid I haven't actually read the manifesto" before going on to tell voters to back candidates from a rival political party. Nevertheless, a party leader is a party leader. I really should get out more.
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