Loneliness is a killer. You can surround yourself with lots of people and keep busy, but if it’s that close link you’ve lost with a dear loved one, it’s hard. As you age it’s not just the physical changes that are hard to take it’s the loss of all those people that we shared our lives with and have died. I used to fill my life with so many things and have now accepted things are completely different, my expectations have changed.
Another Tory MP crosses the floor