11 months ago

QUENTIN LETTS: The General was actually squeaking with indignation... but Dave returned fire

Lord Cameron, international schmoozer, intimate of executive jet lounges, looked in on Parliament for an hour or so. His lordship was enjoying a grand tour through Outer Mongolia and 'the Stans' in a £42million Embraer Lineage when his young honey of an aide rose from her white-leather seat and said 'don't forget the Lords International Relations and Defence committee next ­Tuesday, minister'. Lord Cameron has been enjoying a grand tour through Outer Mongolia and 'the Stans' - Tajikistan, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan – in a £42million Embraer Lineage General Lord Houghton is a former chief of defence staff. He now earns goodish nosebag advising Thales, a French arms manufacturer Incidentally, Lord Houghton was not the only committee member who declared a financial interest in the arms trade. The Lords International Relations and Defence committee, where Lord Cameron and General Houghton clashed over spending Giles Watling also brought Mr Mitchell down a few thousand feet by inviting him to join him and that old tusker Sir Edward Leigh on a trip to Calais.

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