For windows on the corridors of power that were actually written contemporaneously, read this selection of books by MPs from left and right
The year’s most disappointing Christmas gift for thousands of relatives has landed: Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries.
Despite the former health secretary and marsupial-anus-chomper not having kept a diary (the whole thing was devised afterwards), Hancock was in the running to pocket £100,000 for what this paper said goes down “like a plate of sheep’s unmentionables”, and what the Telegraph has judged “Partridge-esque”.
