What Colour are your Shoots?
By Graham Davies

The trouble with many politicians in the House of Lords is that they have not had to go through the tediously effective presentation experience provided by the electoral process.

Most prospective and current MPs have been exposed to an endless stream of media interviews. But a large number of our esteemed Lords and Ladies have lived a more rarefied life, untainted by the tawdry attentions of over-inquisitive journalists.

Hence the “green shoots” from the very green (but now red-faced) Lady Vadera (whoever she is).

She committed the classic ingénue’s mistake of repeating a phrase introduced into a TV interview by the interviewer.

So. Never do that. (And don’t use the same material as Norman Lamont).