I have a friend who lives next door to him and gets to go to his Christmas parties who reckoned when he was appointed that he was quite liberal. But I took a dislike to him as soon as he started going on about hitting the "dinner party cocaine set" or however he described it in about his first month of office!

Cressida Dick, however, I have a bit of a soft spot for as she was Oxford area commander when I was on the council and, like a string of Oxford area commanders, did appear to be quite liberal.