Are You a Minister or a Special Advisor?

I don't care if a politician is hard left or further to the right, they've all gone into it with the best of intentions. And again, coming back to my time when I worked in Parliament, Lawrence himself, I hope it doesn't mind, but I'm going to use him as an example. He would be there until 10 o'clock at night because that's at the time was the time of the final votes. After the final votes, he would eventually go home. It sort of paints quite a sympathetic portrait of the life of a politician and the pressures that they're under. But again, having stood as a parliamentary candidate, I was 25 when I got selected from

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