The Hypocrisy of Douglas Hurd

Have just heard the former Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd claim on the BBC, that a new Labour leader becoming Prime Minister was undemocratic. Maybe.

Let us remind ourselves that Douglas Hurd ran for the Conservative leadership in 1990, after the coup of Thatcher. John Major beat him to it. And Hurd was more than happy to serve in John Major's government. It was then a further two years before Major faced the British public at election time.

Douglas Hurd clearly has a short memory, as have the BBC which did not point this out to him. This column has not.