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When a Mitchell calls…
The phone rang. “Andrew Mitchell here – I’m just ringing to tell you, you are a complete and total c**t…” Slam!
Now I didn’t need Mitch to tell me that. Possibly he was miffed at my reference to his stewardship of the disastrous Child Support Agency when he was a DSS minister under John Major.
Or maybe he didn’t appreciate me mentioning his loss in 1997 of what had been one of the safest Tory seats in the East Midlands.
Well he did start out on that bright, new June morning of 1987 with a majority of 16,500. Ten years later, all was gone like the Spring slush. I know that 1997 was a bit rough on many of us, but that’s going it some, no?
Phillip Oppenheim
