At 61, he is not too old, but he insists that he is out of partypolitics, and is quite happy with his two professorships and an office in the central bank.
The language and imagery of politics, particularly coming out the GOP-Tea Party machine, is filled with inflammatory language and suggestions of violence.
In an interview with the BBC's Sunday Politics programme, Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps pointed out that Mrs Hutchings, her husband and two of their three children, had gone to state schools.