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It seems the former Welsh Office Minister, Rod Richards, may have taken the title of my last entry rather literally.

His suggestion is that his former colleague Alun Cairns takes a trip up to Newbridge and gets a photographer to snap away while Joe Calzaghe jabs him playfully on the chin.

Two things: how sure would you need to be that the world champion boxer was in playful mood before you climbed into the ring with him and secondly, who but Rod Richards would come up with the suggestion of a punch-up as a solution?

But better news for Alun Cairns from the red corner. Former Labour leader of Cardiff Council and former chief executive of the capital's chamber of commerce Russell Goodway says the Tories have over-reacted and that Wales needs what he describes as politicians of Alun Cairns' calibre.

So are those senior Labour figures who've called on him to go wrong then? Ah no - that's understandable. They're simply taking the opportunity handed to them on a plate by the Tories.

'Former' maybe but he's still a politician through and through.

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