But it all went disastrously wrong. He was intelligent. He was articulate. He was humane. He was passionately committed to social justice. He was – brace yourself – compassionate. Or that was my impression. But I knew, of course, it was a false one. He couldn’t be any of those things. Because Iain Duncan Smith is a Tory. A Right-wing Tory to boot. It must have been the wine. So when I got back to my desk I started to do a little research. Just to reassure myself.