A Londoner's Diary ; Anne Mcelvoy On Feeding Time at Westminster, and How Lord Hutton Can Freeze a Hack at 50 Paces

Evening Standard - London › January 09, 2004

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The restaurants of Westminster, gastronomic morgues throughout the Christmas recess, are back in business, full of politicians.

Quirinale in Great Peter Street must have the greatest concentration of politicians per head of diners. On one lunchtime lately you could spot Margaret Jay, Stephen Byers, David Triesman (the outgoing Labour Party General Secretary), David Davies and Menzies Campbell. They should introduce text-message voting from Quirinale and save everyone the trouble of going back over to the Commons.

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A Londoner's Diary ; Anne Mcelvoy On Feeding Time at Westminster, and How Lord Hutton Can Freeze a Hack at 50 Paces

It was good to see Mr Davies (who has always been hungry but usually for power) eating well, since I had treated him not so long ago to a lunch in a very trendy restaurant so cool, in fact, that it did ...

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