Robert Hutton

Robert Hutton is The Critic's parliamentary sketchwriter, and the author of Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter, Romps, Tots & Boffins, and, Would They Lie To You? He tweets at @RobDotHutton

The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness

There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired

The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”

A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue

What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere

The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing

Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party

The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics

The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost

Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris