The all round good sport!

ALTHOUGH Philip Hammond didn’t enjoy last week after his humiliating Budget U-turn, his Tory colleague Nicholas Soames was in exceptionally high spirits. He told friends he relished ‘putting Their Lordships back in their basket’ over their failed Brexit challenge, and was excited about the horse racing at the Cheltenham Festival and the Ireland v England rugby match. The only hiccup for the bon viveur MP was Cheltenham’s new alcohol limit which stops anyone buying more than four alcoholic drinks at a time. ‘So dull,’ said Churchill’s grandson.