Donald Macintyre's sketch: Matinee idol Lord Owen steals the limelight once again
He oozed gravitas. The matinee-idol looks, if a little craggier, seemed surprisingly undiminished by age. He had the effortless authority of a leading ministerial participant in the last referendum on Europe 40 years ago, and his high octane lesson in recent political history would not have been easy listening for the Cabinet Secretary.