A splendid set of winners in the Ascot races with Brian Allgar deservedly a nose in front. Bill Greenwell and I were among the placed. I was remarkably bucked. My first win of the year! And no snobbery, at least from we three!
This looks a very good competition. Come on you furriners. Give us Obama's sonnet, Gillard's Elegy.
No. 2754: political verse
You are invited to submit an example from the Selected Poems of a contemporary politician (16 lines maximum). Please email entries, where possible, to
lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 3 July.