MERRY CHRISTMAS

A brainwave! I have hit on a plan that will at the same time show my serious credentials as Prime Minister in waiting and my ability to tackle the financial crisis. I have decided to ban all Foreign Office Christmas parties!!! I will then get that scruffy individual in News Department to leak this hardnosed decision to the press, and hey presto, I will be man of the hour, if not the era. I expect all the toadies in my Private Office will be sniffy, as December is the time they traditionally range out and drink other people's booze. But I am resolute. The Lying Scotsman will be so jealous when he hears that I have once again upstaged him.
Pass the Advocaat!!