The pomp and perquisites of office evaporate almost as swiftly in London as in Moscow. Within 24 hours of Labor’s victory at the polls, Sir Alec Douglas-Home had to rent a car to move his household ...

“I’m looking forward to this fight,” said Sir Alec Douglas-Home last week. “I’m almost spoiling for it.” He did not have long to spoil. Next day, as Parlia ment reassembled, shouting, leaping Tory ...