Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The new MPs I’m glad to see
At 3am on election night – when results were still uncertain – I surrendered to sleep and turbulent dreams. In one scene, Roy Hattersley, in a kilt, was saluting a uniformed and heavily armed Margaret Thatcher. On Friday my husband brought in the coffee as always and asked: “Do you want the good or bad news?” “Both and fast,” I replied, half-awake and already hyperventilating. Asthma inhalers …
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