Londoner's Diary
Chancellors no longer take a stiff drink at the Commons despatch box when delivering a fiscal statement — the last to do so was Ken Clarke in 1996 — but that doesn’t mean they’ve gone teetotal. Jeremy Hunt, for example, sipped water throughout his autumn statement yesterday but slipped off to the pub afterwards. He was spotted yesterday evening at the Two Chairmen pub in Westminster, carousing with wonks, spads and civil servants, some of whom went on drinking into the early hours at Players Bar, a piano venue in Charing Cross.
