Rishi roasts Truss, Hancock and the lobby

To the Parlimentary Press Gallery dinner, held in the splendour of the National Liberal Club. This event hasn’t been held for four years, with Press Gallery chair Sam Lister joking that ‘Boris Johnson locked the country down’ to avoid attending while Liz Truss resigned the day her invitation to this shindig arrived. Lister gave the opening speech, turning her wit on a series of politicians including Tom Tugendhat whom she quipped had gone from a ‘security minister to a security risk’ in record time.

But the highlight of the night was undoubtedly the speech by the Prime Minister. And Rishi Sunak took to the stage with aplomb, contrasting Lister’s rise with that of her counterpart Hugo Gye, the chairman of the lobby. Lister, Sunak said, had worked her way up from the local press and ‘Completely earned her place in the lobby here this year’ whereas ‘Hugo… Hugo went to Eton’ before teasing the ‘closet Remainer’ as one who had referred to Dominic Grieve as ‘my Prime Minister’.