Article: LORD WINDBAG; Weak, greedy, vain. And now elevated to the body he called the 'descendants of brigands and gangsters'. Yes, welcome back Lord Kinnock!

Byline: QUENTIN LETTS

WITH his trademark roll of the shoulders, winking like a street walker with myxomatosis, one of the most grasping losers of British politics this week took his seat in the House of Lords.

Neil Kinnock, a man about whom voters made their feelings entirely plain, is back at the top table of Westminster.

He looked distinctly chuffed with himself as he was introduced to Westminster's Upper House at a ceremony on Monday. The onetime hard-Left boyo of the Valleys arrived in ermine to hear an orotund statement from the monarch.

This was read out by a clerk, who hailed the grinning gingernut as 'our right trusty and ...

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