November 1997,
Cambridge

"Ah yes, dubbin," muses Sir Teddy in his inimitable Scottish Europhobic Tory style. "It's as British as Kelloggs, Ford and Heinz. There's one thing the garlic-pushing onion-shagging Wops will ne'er g' th'r hands 'n!" he adds, incoherently.

"The latest thing the EU wants is to introduce legislation to make dubbin more sloppy! Can you believe it? It makes me bloody shout! What good is sloppy dubbin for treating my weeping sores?"