That reminds me of one of the few conservative politicians for whom I have any time. From memory, it was John Biffen {famously described as a "semi-detached" minister in Thatcher's first cabinet}. He was asked a difficult and hopelessly convoluted question in The House by a Labour MP. His reply was along the lines of: "You have asked me three questions. The answers are Yes, No and Yes ... but not necessarily in that order".
P.S. I think he was also responsible for an answer to a question from the grand Labour leftist Dennis Skinner {"The Beast of Bolsover"} that suggested class bias in the Tory party, the answer beginning with "As one grammar school boy to another ...". Even Dennis was forced to chuckle at this.
I do like the ability to think on one's feet in politics and to humourous about it. Not much of that about it politics in any era, and almost entirely absent today.
