Happy polling day one and all. While the political parties knock up doors, the Financial Times has brought some merriment to Westminster by revealing plans for the forthcoming Kings’s birthday honours’ list. There are the usual City grandees including the bosses of Barclays, Citigroup and the London Stock Exchange Group (up the workers eh?) But Steerpike’s eye was caught by the name of David Gauke, the onetime Tory Justice Secretary among the nominees.

In days of yore, Gauke was a favourite........

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