Leon Brittan, who was grey well before John Major made it a career choice, has departed this sorry vale. He did things, but I never cared enough to understand what they were. 

I know of him, but not what he did. My waning interest in politics never included him. He had a face n' a half though didn't he?

I guess a lot of things will be able to be said about him without fear of libel now.

Was he a bastard?

I don't know much about it but he seems to be a central figure in this strangely delayed and messed up enquiry that's supposed to be going and still isn't, into some high-profile paedophilia and murder nastiness.

Yes, it was certainly very odd how nothing seemed to get done about those dossiers that were handed over one of Brittan's trusted underlings who was the half-brother of a member of PIE. Allegedly.

Met him in a newsagents in the '80s when he was in the cabinet. Sleazy, slimy guy in a Jabba the Hutt type of way.