POOR show from the Daily Mail’s acerbic sketch writer Quentin Letts who has laid into Mikey Ellis for his slavish loyalty to the Government. (County colleagues Binners, Bone, Hollobone and Eurosceptics Leadsom and Heaton-Harris are hardly yes-men/women while the once loyal @louisemensch has popped off to tweet from the other side of the pond).
Anyway, if you missed it, Mikey (with accompanying photo) was described as someone who walked the corridors of Westminster “with an air of stupendous gravitas” possibly for chairing the all-party group on the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee or sitting on the very important home affairs select committee.
Here’s that nasty Mr Letts again: “Whatever, the egregious Ellis is known by colleagues as Sir Michael Ellis KCMG”. Doubtless Mikey will wonder if all this Mail prose is a bad thing. To which the only response is there’s only one thing worse than people talking about you as an MP. And that’s them not talking about you. Right sir?