Our thanks to Jeff for this in the Express today. He writes:

“Has Leo McKinstry only just realised this, Mike?”

Apparently so, 15+ years and Jeff and I and countless other men and women did. From McKinstry’s Wikipedia page:

“In the early 1990s, McKinstry was a Labour councillor in Islington and worked as a parliamentary aide to Labour politician Harriet Harman, for which he has never apologised. Losing his seat on Islington council in 1994, he was working for Labour frontbencher Doug Henderson when he announced the following year, via an article in The Spectator, that he no longer supported the party. Subsequently, he was a regular columnist in both the Daily Mail and the Daily Express.

McKinstry is married and lives in Kent and Provence.”

OK, I may have added six words there.

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