[Tomalak]

Oh, and Roy Hattersley has some nerve writing about how much the Queen Mother costs the country. He was one of the worst ministers in by far the worst British government in the last 60 years. The Labour Government of 1974-1979 cost the country more than a dozen monarchies.

[David Hunter]

Roy Hattersley has some nerve writing about how much the Queen Mother costs the country. He was one of the worst ministers in by far the worst British government in the last 60 years.

Yes. The Labour government of the late seventies failed in many ways. But Hattersley does have some sensible things to say about the psychology of the Monarchy and its effects on British society.