"Then we got round to Michael's health. "He's reached a rather difficult stage," Julie said and began to talk about Michael's digressions, his seeming inability to get to the point or stay on it. It was so. But I added: "If you call him up and you say, 'I want to ask you about this, this, and this and give him the night to think about it, he'll come in the morning and for an hour or two he will do perfectly well." Michael recognised the problem, I said. He called it "wandering." "Well, that was his problem when he was leader of the Labour Party," said Paul amid our laughter."