Theresa May – remember her? – had an awful lot to say about Brexit, social care and the knightly credentials of Geoffrey Boycott, but on the subject of rugby she was as quiet as a Trappist.
Even so, one of her more ringing declarations resonates strongly in union circles.
“If you believe you’re a citizen of the world,” she famously told us, “you are a citizen of nowhere.”

It certainly strikes a chord with those who continue to support Twickenham’s “drawbridge” policy, which prevents the likes of David Ribbans and the Willis brothers staking their claims for international selection ahead o...