Well done for wringing that much out of Gordon Walker! It’s funny, the job of Foreign Secretary almost becomes a void in the first Wilson government with Gordon Walker (out of Parliament), Stewart (middleweight at best), Brown (drunk and paranoid) and Stewart again (unimproved). Yet of course it’s also the last government until Boris Johnson for which Europe is something other countries do.

Alec Home, of course, intended to appoint Christopher Soames if the Conservatives had won in 1964…