Helena Carr

that came to sit outside all of this reading and discipline and governance and commendable self-control.

And that was the death in 2023 of his beloved wife of 50 years, Helena.

And perhaps it still shocks him in a way to hear those words, the death of his beloved wife, Helena.

Can it be true? Well, yes, it can.

And in his most recent book, Bring Back Yesterday, He writes about this monumental loss with an elegance and restraint that makes you feel you can almost touch the grief.

It shows an extraordinary kind of fealty to the role of intellectual richness and depth in political life.

And I don't think that many people enter politics perhaps with that same fealty and commitment to it.

But by your side, through all of those years, the light of your life, your co-conspirator, as you have described her, was Helena.