Hugh O’Leary’s absence could be a sign that our politics is growing up, tiring of pantomime
Do you believe in Hugh O’Leary? I do, although at this point, after an entire leadership campaign in which Liz Truss’s rumoured husband has gone unseen and barely mentioned, it’s understandable if some people have concluded he enjoys the same figment status as her inborn Yorkshire values or hardship years in Leeds.
Or, if not actually mythical, maybe Mr O’Leary belongs to the category of things Truss has ideologically moved on from, like the Lib Dems, Republicanism or supporting Remain: a perfectly sane and reasonable option in the past, but not something that should now be allowed to interfere with her increasingly unhinged pronouncements.
