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  Says a lot about politicians of every leaning, Reg. The skills and other attributes required to get elected to a public post are very different from those required to do the job. Getting elected requires salesmanship, ruthlessness, guile and a burning personal ambition. Doing the job requires high intellect, determination, total honesty and integrity, and an acceptance that personal ambition has to be put aside. Combining both sets of qualities in one individual is very rare indeed. I can't think of a front-bencher in any party at present who demonstrates both. To find such a person in the Labour camp we have to go back to John Smith; Enoch Powell and Iain MacLeod for the Tories and possibly David Penhaligon for the Liberals, who unfortunately killed himself in a road accident.

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