Discovered this other bit while reading the day’s Daily Telegraph:
Beau Biden, 39, elder son of Senator Joe Biden, Mr Obama’s running mate, is scheduled to go to Iraq early next year. Beau Biden is attorney general of Delaware and a captain in the legal corps of the US Army’s National Guard. He is in line to inherit his father’s Senate seat should Mr Obama win the White House.
Damn Tories. They must be forgetting in a fit of wishful thinking that even their own House of Lords no longer has inheritable seats.