Labour's shadow chancellor
marx out of ten
Anneliese Jane Dodds (born 16 March 1978)
God, politicians are getting younger these days.
Its impossible to seperate that fact (IMO) from the impression that politicians are all getting more light-weight look as though they're making it up as they are going along
No doubt politicians like Dennis Healy and Lord Carrington actually were, in some objective way, more substantial and serious people than say Ed Milliband or Dominic Raab. But did they necessarily seem that way at the time, or were unfavourable comparisons made (by the equivalents of me and breakfast) with the likes of Stafford Cripps or Derick Heathcoat-Amory?
Only Tangent will know and he is far, far away.
I wonder if he has some kind of metaphysical weighing device in his study, by which he can evaluate the relative significance of say Priti Patel vs Cecil Parkinson
I’m sure he does.
Patel contributed to Britannia Unchained, so presumably there is a thought out ideological framework there, however flawed and objectionable. I’m not aware of Parkinson having pondered much. My memory is that he was regarded as a lightweight back in the 1980s.