“If I was a sort of floating voter, I would say ‘this is a very attractive sort of geek here, but is he actually anybody who can run anything’? Geeks are people who should advise people who lead countries and lead governments, it seems to me.”

Kenneth Clarke relishes life back at the centre of government | Politics | The Observer.

I suppose what the UK government needs is more public school boys who’ve done nothing but study politics and work in marketing.