A premier too many

Date: 04/04/1996

It's hard to keep tabs on the growing number of political Euro-celebrities milling around summits these days. Years ago, you only had to memorise the faces of six European leaders at any one time, but now there are nearly three times as many

Such was the plight of the aforementioned Jonathan Haslam, John Major's public relations troubleshooter.

He informed the assembled journalists in Turin that Major had bumped into a couple of fellow leaders for brief chats in the margins of the talks.

“One I did not recognise, the other was Rasmussen, I think,” he said.