William Keegan in the Observer reports comments by Denis Healy, the former Labour Chancellor, made last week. He apparently said:
I feel sorry for George Osborne, despite his politics [pregnant pause] — and his personality.
Healey has always been the master of the pithy, biting, phrase. He still is, it seems, at the age of 93.
That is worthy of laudation!
A master!
Pithy, and he also had a good line about Geoffrey Howe. Shame he was such a rubbish Chancellor.