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Our London correspondent takes in the Guinness-fuelled St Patrick’s Day celebrations in the Irish Embassy and beyond
There’s nothing like St Patrick’s Day to unite politicians in Westminster.
Granted, the Thames gets no upgrade from its usual murky hue and parliamentarians here prefer bonhomie to Bono.
But tell MPs and journalists to gather at an illuminated Irish Embassy for 6pm in them middle of March, and the room will be packed at 5.59pm.
Simon Harris, and not a promise of copious glasses of Guinness, was of course the main attraction on Wednesday ...