The Guardian’s obituary and related article (along with Paul Linford’s post) about the death of former Labour MP Fiona Jones tell a tragic tale – she died aged just 49.
Others have written about the (end of the) parliamentary drinking culture, the divisions locally in her CLP and the PLP nationally leaving surplus ‘97 MPs to sink or swim.
The story is another illustration of our strange relationship with drink. Some newspapers run pieces about the horrors of binge drinking but lots of us, including doctors, use it to help and at the same time alcohol is becoming cheaper relatively. Although, it doesn’t always seem like it!
