Enter Eric Pickles, the thinking man’s John Prescott, writes HENRY DEEDES
Ey up! Who was this cheery peer beaming at us down the Zoom lens, with eyes like hooded ping pong balls, forehead shiny as a linoleum floor? Why it was Eric Pickles – ex-Tory minister, government flak jacket and seasoned Westminster trencherman. Been a while since we heard owt from ‘Uncle Eric’, as the former … Read more