"Lord Ashcroft's qualifications for this task are his collection of old Victoria Crosses, years of private plane and yacht rides with William Hague, and a decade of vast Tory donations as a secret non dom.
I'd pretty much go along with that. Anyone have any idea if he has any actual experience of defence matters which would justify his getting this job (unpaid, apparently, but you can bet he wont be staying in a non air-conditioned transit block at Akrotiri)?