Further than before from the inside story, he nonetheless remained a backroom boy in a sense, beavering away in the upper chamber and on official commissions to review such hard-to-sort subjects as electoral reform and social care for the elderly.

故事以往不曾有的是，他却在某种意义上一直处在幕后，为上议院和官方委员会辛勤的工作，回顾那些难以排序的事件（比如选举改革，或是老年人的社会福利）。