There were rather more Tories, but still not enough to prevent the upper chamber from becoming an echo chamber. Hell, didn’t the government know that the last Thursday before Christmas was the day she traditionally headed off for Sandringham? On the walk from the Commons to the Lords, Boris Johnson repeatedly tried to engage the Labour leader in small talk. As the SNP’s Ian Blackford got up to reply, Boris merely pulled out his phone and started playing online CandyCrush with Classic Dom. John Crace’s new book, Decline and Fail: Read in Case of Political Apocalypse, is published by Guardian Faber.

Source: The Guardian December 19, 2019 19:00 UTC