Post by Zos on Sept 12, 2019 16:14:11 GMT
But his anger may not be without foundation. His biographer Leo McKinstry, in a fair-minded and well-researched account of the trial, is very convincing that the verdict was at best unsafe and at worst unjust.
The honours system is rarely forgiving. Lester Piggott, Britain’s greatest jockey, remains unknighted more than 30 years after being imprisoned for tax fraud. And Boycott may also have stayed shaken and un-sirred but for a single admirer, handily placed.
Years ago May outed herself as a Boycott-lover; she admired his doggedness. And in 2015, the Mail on Sunday reported that May, then home secretary, had been blocked from adding him to the honours list; officials cited the French conviction. The following year May was promoted. And from then on it was only a matter of time.