Best wing in the world? Cheslin Kolbe
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The Prime Minister rather enjoys his rugger: indeed, he attended last month’s England-Wales fixture, the final Twickenham act of this season’s Eton Mess of a Six Nations Championship, thereby signalling to the organisers of the Cheltenham Festival that the cramming together of 250,000 racegoers in the teeth of a global health emergency was a spiffing idea.
As he surveys the Covid-19 carnage from the stately surroundings of Chequers, which is comfortably big enough to stage a Gold Cup meeting of its own...