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Lynn joined the Cambridge Union in his first year at the University of Cambridge because he thought that he might like to enter politics.

" All of the main debaters there, aged twenty, were the most pompous, self-satisfied, self-important bunch of clowns that I've ever clapped eyes on.

They were all behaving as if they were on the government front bench, and twenty years later they all were: Michael Howard ; John Selwyn Gummer ; Kenneth Clarke.

I thought at that point that the only way that I could ever contribute to politics is making fun of the politicians.