When trying to sum up Ken Clarke's tone in chatting about "doing deals with Ulstermen" i told Evening Extra he sounded a bit like Joseph Chamberlain talking about Ulster as if it was " a far off country of which we know nothing".
Not for the first time I've mangled my quotes - I was of course referring to Neville Chamberlain's quote about the Sudetenland, and wrongly attributed it to his Liberal Unionist father.
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