Young Heffer
Eric Heffer, the forty-nine year old Labour MP for the Walton division of Liverpool, boasted in the House of Commons last week that he started life as the butcher's errand boy delivering meat for the superior young men at Haileybury and look where he is now. I have spoken to a Haileyburian who may have been at the school when the appropriately named Heffer called on his hike, though he has only the haziest recollection of meat being part of the diet except in broth and the occasional stew. He agrees with Eric about the frightful snobs at the place and particularly the head boy, now the far-left sociologist, Professor Brian Abel-Smith, whose heavenward glances and air of sanctity when reading the lesson in the school chapel are a shaming memory
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