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

With friends like Tory backbenchers, who needs Cabinet colleagues?

Straighten tie, look to camera, the guys are here? Don’t smile, furrow brow, go

Jeremy Corbyn sails into deep water with the EHRC

Calm, Zen, Relaxed, Unfussed, Unagitated, Boris, Flip, Cripes, Oo-er

Madchester? Sadchester? No, Gladchester, thought Boris

What if the real Brexit drama was … over a long time ago?

The instruments of darkness tell us truths

Starmer’s first order is last orders for pubs

They’d have clapped, it would have been the best clapping