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

We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?

It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?

Intrigue, invasion and romance blossom in Lincolnshire

Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat

Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people

Who will win the hearts of the nation?

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