[While deputy prime minister] He's there to serve a very important ceremonial function as David Cameron's lapdog-cum-prophylactic protection device for all the difficult things that David Cameron has to do that cheese off the rest of the ... [ending absent] He’s a kind of shield. He’s a lapdog who’s been skinned and turned into a shield to protect.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[While deputy prime minister] He's there to serve a very important ceremonial function as David Cameron's lapdog-cum-prophylactic protection device for all the difficult things that David Cameron has to do that cheese off the rest of the ... [ending absent] He’s a kind of shield. He’s a lapdog who’s been skinned and turned into a shield to protect." in the context of "Boris Johnson interviewed on LBC, as cited in "Nick Clegg is David Cameron's condom, Boris Johnson says" The Telegraph (7 January 2014)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.