Sharing women with Bill Clinton

US President Bill Clinton and IPC chairman David Arculus have much more than power in common.

It seems they share the same taste in women. Both dated Tamara Eccles-Williams, a student at Oxford University in the late Sixties.

Arculus informed the Diary of the affair at an IPC press dinner he hosted last week, just as a selection of Cuba’s finest were offered to the assembled hacks.

Arculus went out with Eccles-Williams a year before she started seeing Clinton. The Diary imagines he taught her how to enjoy a good cigar – knowledge the future Pres-ident evidently found invaluable.

The Diary seems to recall that Arculus indulged in an after-dinner cigar, but felt it wise to decline the shared pleasure.