[Chris O'Carroll]

No 4266
By Leonora Casement
Writing of Chris Huhne, Peter Wilby last week described him as harbouring “a dark side beneath a warm manner and sunny smile”. “My wife rumbled him years ago when we were invited to the annual January party at his home, only to find he had gone canvassing for the Lib Dem leadership, leaving his then spouse to preside. That man, my wife confided, is not what he wants us to think he is.” Could we have made-up first-person tales about a politician of your choice in which a seemingly small incident (a refusal to eat haggis, a preference for lemon tea, and so on) reveals the “dark side” of the man or woman?
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