Jacob and Esau
Giles Merritt, 24 November 1988
Lord Carrington and Norman Tebbit must be the Jacob and Esau of the Tory Party. Peter Carrington is beyond question a smooth man, and Tebbit is, if not hairy, certainly very prickly.
Giles Merritt
Giles Merritt who was previously on the foreign staff of the Financial Times, lives in Brussels and writes a monthly column for the International Herald Tribune.
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