From the ‘pingdemic’ to Peppa Pig, the government’s blunders have kept political sketch writer John Crace particularly busy this year
This year has provided the Guardian’s political sketch writer John Crace no shortage of scandals and stumbles to satirise. He tells Nosheen Iqbal about his most memorable moments of 2021, which began on a high note for Boris Johnson with the successful rollout of the Covid vaccination programme, but rapidly deteriorated.
There was the wallpaper that the prime minister couldn’t afford because it cost more than £800 a roll; the Greensill lobbying scandal involving the former Tory leader David Cameron; and an extended controversy about the ethics of MPs holding second jobs – among other embarrassments.
