Lord Sugar's Major memory lapse

The Apprentice star Lord Sugar is not one of life's charmers, but he surpassed himself yesterday, the Independent diary reports, by forgetting the name of one of the former prime ministers who cosied up to him. Quizzed by Adrian Chiles, a slightly less grumpy man who used to host the Apprentice spinoff show You're Fired! on BBC2, Sugar started to list his political patrons: "Chancellors of the exchequer and prime ministers, Lady Thatcher er .... Wossisface ..." "John Major?" Chiles suggested. "John Major," Sugar remembered. "He made a big impression on me." As big an impression, in fact, as Chiles is currently making on Daybreak viewers.