Fran Lebowitz rather dashed my hopes in Liverpool, the last place the PM would be welcome
Counselling caution: Fran Lebowitz.Last modified on Sat 9 Jul 2022 18.21 BSThe hop by plane from Dublin to Liverpool is so swift that one barely has a moment to peruse the duty-free catalogue, but last week it was long enough to fear that the entire political landscape might have altered by the time one hit passport control. But Wednesday was, I discovered, to be arriving in a city that, if it has no time for the Tory party, has even less for Boris Johnson.
Much has and will be said about the comportment of Andrea Jenkyns, MP and newly appointed minister in the education department, who They convince him that the beautiful Olivia is in love with him and, to win her favour further, he might parade around in cross-gartered yellow stockings. When finally the deception is uncovered, Malvolio quits the scene with one of the play’s most quoted lines: “I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you.”
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