“Have these idiots never heard of Gary Hart?” Such was the exasperated response of a veteran One Nation Conservative yesterday to the failure of “small boats week”.
The “idiots” in question, of course, were Rishi Sunak and his ministerial colleagues. Hart was the front-runner for the 1988 US Democratic presidential nomination who famously invited the press to “follow me around” in May 1987 in search of evidence of his alleged womanising — and was forced to stand down as a candidate only five days later, following the disclosure that he had taken an overnight trip with a younger woman on a luxury yacht called Monkey Business.
