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Is it Heseltine? I know you cant say...
It's a complex business, they all vary so much, Corbyn and Blair are from the same party ffs... One particularly interesting character is Lord Adonis. He's been in all three parties and is basically regarded as A-political and just wants to be doing something useful. There's a few people like that... Just not the current front-benchers.
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I work in the House of Lords, so at the same time as having to be politically neutral while I'm on duty, I get to meet a good number of current and retired politicians. The one who has surprised me most in terms of the difference between the public persona and the real person has been an old tory who is popularly remembered as being one of Margaret Thatcher's hit-men.
Everyone expects him to be the Spitting Image caricature, but he's a disarmingly nice guy with a very good sense of humour.
I'd still never vote conservative, but chatting to him has been a lesson that you should never judge people on their public persona.