After prime ministers waddle out of Downing Street for the final time there’s a tendency for their looks to, well, go to pot. Think Gordon Brown’s haunted features or Tony Blair’s stocking-over-the head visage.
So when David Cameron appeared before the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy yesterday I was expecting an ungainly mass of cookie dough slumped in front of us. Instead, he looked in remarkably fine fettle.
The hairline’s holding firm. Those apple cheeks noticeably less podgy than the last time we saw him. He was also showcasing a snazzy new pair of spectacles, procured, quite possibly, from the same oculist as Brains from Thunderbirds.