I read yesterday of Caroline Spelman's defence of employing her nanny to perform secretarial duties. The BBC article details a reference she makes to her home becoming her office when she became an MP in 1997, following the "untimely death" of her predecessor.
Her predecessor was Iain Mills, who died aged 56. At what age, or in what situation, does a death become timely? And are deaths ever "a long time coming"?
