On a busy night for Westminster parties, the weather smiled on The Critic’s summer drinks yesterday evening. Guests present in the magazine’s Tufton Street garden included Home Secretary Suella Braverman … former Trade Secretary Lord Lilley … Blue Labour’s Lord Glasman … pop critic and Sunday Times writer Sarah Ditum … The Critic’s artist-in-residence Adam Dant … New Criterion editor Roger Kimball … Norfolk landowner the Earl of Leicester … Critic proprietor Jeremy Hosking … Sunday Times and Daily Mail columnist, and former Spectator and Sunday Telegraph editor Dominic Lawson … President of the Jobs Foundation and former Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott … Times literary editor Robbie Millen …. political editor of the i Hugo Gye …. Telegraph Brexit editor Dia Chakravartry … Create Streets founder Nick Boys Smith … novelist and Critic TV reviewer Adam LeBor … GBN’s Tom Harwood … Critic assistant editor Jo Bartosch … former Liz Truss speechwriter Asa Bennett …

CAPX editor Alys Denby … ConHome’s William Atkinson … literary critic DJ Taylor … opera critic Norman Lebrecht … free thinker Obadiah Mbatang (probably) … feminist icon and sometime Momentum member Venice Allen … Critic sketchwriter Rob Hutton … north London landlord and Times reader Tim Chapman (possibly)… party queen Malin Bogue … journalist and historian Guy Walters … Shooting Times editor and Critic columnist Paddy Galbraith … Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens … writer and GBN producer Charlotte Gill … editor of The Article and former editor of Standpoint Daniel Johnson … i chief political commentator Paul Waugh … Cambridge philosophy don and Edmund Burke Foundation UK chairman James Orr …

former Sunday Times political editor Jonathan Oliver … SMF director and former Daily Telegraph political editor James Kirkup … boulevardier and resting actor Romeo Coates … France and Oxford’s Lola Salem … Emeritus Professor of History at Exeter University Jeremy Black … senior editor, Engelsberg Ideas, and former Critic literary editor and editor of History Today Paul Lay … journalist and novelist Jenny McCartney … GBN reporter Charlie Peters … “Bimbo Ubermensch” Sandra Soliman … Critic racing correspondent and former Jewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard … News Letter editor Ben Lowry … professional Catholic Andrew Cusack … senior editor, Compact Nina Power … Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews Michael Bentley … substacker and former UnHerd editor Ed West … Critic legal correspondent Yuan Yi Zhu … New Statesman writer Will Lloyd … HGO intendant David Conway … Maastricht rebel and Bruges Group chairman Barry Legg … former RA Secretary, National Gallery director, and, National Portrait Gallery director, and now Critic architecture correspondent Sir Charles Saumarez Smith.