His exercise regime consists of taking his pointers to look for grouse in the heather, crawling through peat bogs with his rifle in search of stags and fishing for trout in his pools. He hasn’t heard of Twitter and he has “the bless-ed Maxine” to send his e-mails. “I prefer plus fours to pinstripes,” he says. “Unlike David Cameron, I am not going to give up stalking nor am I going to resign from White’s.”
His exercise regime consists of taking his pointers to look for grouse in the heather, crawling through peat bogs with his rifle in search of stags and fishing for trout in his pools. He hasn’t heard of Twitter and he has “the bless-ed Maxine” to send his e-mails. “I prefer plus fours to pinstripes,” he says. “Unlike David Cameron, I am not going to give up stalking nor am I going to resign from White’s.”
Definitely not a man cast in the normal political mould, and all the better for that.
Let's hope that UKIP can shed its legacy of internal squabbling and in fighting and show that it is big enough bury its differences and give its new leader a chance to show what he can do.