I Expect His Experience As A Journalist Helped.

If there's a job where taking the piss out of your expenses is an art form it has to be journalism.

So when a journalist becomes an MP and then a Lord, it must be a tremendous help! No having to be shown the ropes by the senior troughers for them, straight in like a rat down a drain.

So it must have been for Lord Ryder, still at it after all these years.

I expect his aunt, the late Baroness Ryder of Warsaw, of the Sue Ryder Homes is spinning in her grave.

The Penguin