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…and the irrational prejudices you rode in on. She says she’s stepping down, in the words of that old cliche, ‘to spend more time with her family‘. Who knows, it might even be true. It’s just that that phrase is so overdone and euphemistic, you’d think by now they’d have come up with something else that doesn’t automatically arouse suspicion.

One way to find out if she’s truly quitting to look after her bairns is to keep an eye out on any jobs, directorships, positions with lobby firms, etc she might accept in the near future.

If end she ends up flogging MRI scanners for the private sector or advising Pepsi Cola on how to ‘help it fight the backlash against unhealthy snacks‘ or something similar, like Alan ‘I have found it increasingly difficult to balance having a young family in the north-east with the demands of being a cabinet minister‘ Milburn, you know the family excuse was a crock.