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Mrs T accused Denis Healey of being `frit` ! not sure about the rest ...

Prime Minister’s Questions April 1983, in response to an interruption from Healey.. about half way down...

“The right hon. Gentleman is afraid of an election, is he? Afraid? Frightened? Frit? “

https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105294

Thanks Jono ... Healey could give it back too ... when Geoffrey Howe criticised him he said `it was like being savaged by a dead sheep`

I'm no expert on Maggie!
Final Araucaria of the day then. Poet of the jigsaw (5) -E-T-
I have KEATS but to say I have no idea why would be an understatement!

Might it be YEATS? "Ye" could be "the", but I've no idea on the ATS.

It's one of his alphabetical ones, so K rather than Y at the beginning.

If this is one of Araucaria’s alphabetical jigsaw puzzles, then “of the jigsaw” might be a contextual reference. Is there a theme perhaps? Other than that I can’t think of a Keats connection

Impossible without seeing the whole puzzle, but if it’s one of those “answers must be entered wherever they will fit” Guardian puzzles, could there be something thematic which is not in the clue itself?

Apologies jono, I didn’t refresh before I posted so I unwittingly echoed your thought

Ha! No problem Quisling we had the same thought