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"The whole family basically thought I was a goner," he wrote.

Then, just before 11am, as foreign office minister Stephen Doughty stood up in the Commons to answer an urgent question on Mandelson, my emails pinged - and Lord Mandelson was a goner.

When a tree has 25 or more exit holes, it’s probably a goner, Durbin said.

And they have concluded the number, but not the policy itself, is an albatross around their neck - and so it is a goner.

I kept thinking: "If the next vehicle comes down the hill, the driver will struggle to see me and I will be a goner."