And so the wheel of political fortune turns.

Political fortune favours the brave.

And it should be easy for a half-competent finance minister to avoid creating hostages to political fortune, which he probably managed, too.

The underlying theory was that the condition of, say, a chicken's liver, was connected with, perhaps, the dangerous storms or military or political fortune.

Someone who has resigned twice and survived grows the necessary detachment from their own political fortunes that every successful politician needs.