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Mind your language

Why do ministers – and bakers – love a rollout?

18 September 2021

9:00 AM

18 September 2021

9:00 AM

I was rolling out some pastry that had been cooling its pudgy heels in the fridge when voices on the wireless began discussing whether Priti Patel would roll out ‘controversial new tactics to turn migrants back mid-Channel’. I felt that our rolling roles belonged to different realms.

For pastry, I have a rolling pin.

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