"The Queen’s 80th birthday present from Tony Blair’s Cabinet was a china tea set made by Spode pottery in Staffordshire, and believed to cost about £1,000.Not very imaginative, lads. One would have thought that Her Maj already possessed more than enough china tea sets.
The 25 Cabinet members are thought to have chipped in a minimum of about £30 each for the set in the Stafford Flowers design — described as “one of the great Spode patterns” with 22-carat gilding."
An occasional glimpse into the workings of the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Executive (or comments on anything else that takes my fancy).
22 April 2006
Birthday presents
What do you give someone who already has everything? The cabinet is obviously as clueless as everyone else. The Times reports:
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