There are worse things than a leader who likes a drink

BEFORE a gala dinner at the Nato summit in Brussels this week, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was seen swaying and had to be given a wheelchair. His critics were quick to suggest that the 63-year-old former Luxembourg prime minister with a reputation as a heavy drinker may have over-refreshed himself. The truth may have been that he was incapacitated by acute leg pains from which he’s said to suffer. By comparison, Donald Trump never drinks alcohol. The appearance of the two men together in Brussels made me think of that great newspaper editor William Rees-Mogg (father of Brexiteer Jacob) who once famously wrote that he preferred Foreign Secretary George Brown drunk to Prime Minister Harold Wilson sober. In the spirit of the late Lord Rees-Mogg, I have to say that there are times when I prefer Juncker drunk to Trump sober.