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Was Cherie really talking about Gordon's hair? 'Well, that's a dye'.(Cherie Blair, Gordon Brown)
Publication: Spectator Publication Date: 30-SEP-06 Author: Johnson, Frank
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COPYRIGHT 2006 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
It has been a good week for connoisseurs of denials by or on behalf of the prominent. Jeremy Paxman was reported to have written a book in which he says that because of Prince Charles's liking for a boiled egg at the end of a day's hunting, his staff prepare seven for him, so that he may choose to have it softer or harder according to his taste that evening.
No less a source than Clarence House itself formally denied it. Then came the aside about Gordon Brown which an employee of a financial news television channel at the Labour party conference in Manchester claimed to have heard Mrs Blair utter. No less a source than No. 10 Downing Street denied it.
Opinion in the country seems to divide on the boiled egg issue. No one thinks Mr Paxman made it up. But some think that a person ill-disposed to the Prince told him.
Opinion in the country seems, however, to believe that Mrs Blair said what...
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