...policies advocated by the MP for Somerton and Frome (elected for the first time in 2015 with the largest Tory swing of any constituency), but, as a state-educated former Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust Scholar at King's College, London, a former freelance composer (who was actually commissioned to write stuff), the founder of a dead trendy mobile phone business (subsequently sold to an American company), and the owner of several more recent businesses, he sounds like a politician with a proper hinterland - and he writes a mean column into the bargain. It's always a relief to hear of a Tory MP who doesn't have a background in the law or financial services - and there can't have been many MPs who were formerly serious composers (mind you, judging by Andrew Faulds and Glenda Jackson, the fewer professional actors-turned-MPs the better).
Reads like he is an alumnus of the Quentin Letts school of very enjoyable bitchery.
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Now that the Telegraph's Michael Deacon appears to be running out of steam (which coincided with him starting a restaurant column in the magazine) I'm starting to wish the Mail and the DT would arrange a transfer deal.
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