HANSOM WARMING UP

摘要

Being a minister is never an easy job but one of my hacks was surprised to observe that energy minister Greg Barker keeps two bottles of gin in his bookcase. We all know that getting the Green Deal off the ground has been difficult but perhaps it has been more stressful than we first imagined. Or perhaps it's simply that in these tough economic times he keeps one bottle (Gordon's) for guests and one for himself (Bombay Sapphire), as well as a rogue bottle of Campari. Maybe he's a fan of the gin and Campari-based cocktail Negroni - in which case one hopes he has a bottle of vermouth hidden behind his Hansard.