The motion for the Humble Address is proposed by a senior and seconded by a junior government MP - "a genial old codger on the way out, and an oily young man on the make" as the former Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell put it, when he was the junior MP in question.

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He built the business into a colossus and himself into a multimillionaire with a bright red Ferrari, though for much of that time he was the unknown man eating egg and chips in the lorry park, with oily hands from all that cleaning.

ECONOMIST: Edward Stobart | The

If country music has been saved from commercial Nashville's oily quiffs and bubblegum lyrics, it is thanks to a single-handed rescue operation by this great man.

ECONOMIST: Country music