Aged politicians
In largely sensible piece (my own view of Ming Campbell was that he was always too old to be leader of a major party, as it's a job that requires a bit of street-fighting), Matthew d'Ancona said this last week about Menzies Campbell:Ming's problem was never age - Mick Jagger and Michael Heseltine are proof enough that you can still bring down the house after 60.
This isn't really true, is it? Heseltine was 60 on the 21st March 1993, and I'd say by then he was looking a bit past it. The coal mines fiasco had damaged his reputation as a moderate, fairly or unfairly, and only a bit later, in June of the year he had a heart attack.
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posted by Matthew @ 10/24/2007 03:58:00 PM
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