One day our prince will come. Oh wait! There he is galloping towards us on a white steed all the way from Denmark.
It’s Stephen Kinnock. And look! Riding side-saddle is Will — my how he’s grown — Straw, and David ‘no Jags’ Prescott. These three scions of lefty MPs are known as The Red Princes as they forge their own careers in politics. OK, they’re not exactly what we had in mind when we imagined our fairy-tale saviours, but let’s go with it.
Steve is undoubtedly the hottest property, not least because his wife is literally Mrs Borgen (how cool must the guy be to have married Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt?). Stephen, who is one of the Labour candidates for Aberavon, also has a very strong jawline and a pleasingly shaped head — a must for any baldie in our book. As for Will, hasn’t he come a long way from dabbling in drum and bass and selling weed to newspaper reporters? He’s still got that cheeky chappie look, but now he’s, like, a serious grown-up. He is Labour’s candidate in Rossendale and Darwen and is married to a glamorous Texan. Then there’s Dave, a self-proclaimed ‘campaigner, complainer and game changer’ — cute! He didn’t win the Greenwich and Woolwich seat last year, but the cuddly father of three gets our vote.
They may not be Hans Christian Andersen handsome, but let’s forget what their daddies did or didn’t do (the defeat by John Major, the expenses scandal, the affair with the secretary) when they were in politics and marvel at how charming these Red Princes have become.
