Former ministers are a worry – they always give the game away when they are out of office.
Indeed, Diary has heard former ministers admit all sorts – from fiddling with the formula on the finance settlement to get the results they wanted to Michael Portillo’s confession that he always served cake when he called in council leaders to cap their council tax because you may as well make it civilised.
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