You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch.
You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair.
Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.
One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?
The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.
It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.