Away Day for the Parliamentary Party – as private can’t tell you what we said! Parliament has been adjourned out of respect for passing of ex-Prime Minister Ted Heath. Interesting that it was he, a Tory, who believed so passionately in our joining the European Community (though Churchill’s views on European unity would also make many current Tories shiver!). I remember the debate and the referendum. Needless to say I voted for. Ted Heath was the last Prime Minister to see active service and I do wonder whether that is what gave him such an internationalist view. Certainly his successors appear myopic in European, nay, global terms.