Spectator competition winners: Donald Trump writes a political thriller

In Competition No. 3207, you were invited to supply an extract from a thriller, written by a well-known politician, that contains clues to the identity of its author.

This challenge drew a moderate-sized entry in which there was much to admire, including Janine Beacham’s fusion of Daphne du Maurier and Winston Churchill: ‘I might have called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, but I would not fail or falter. Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror…’ And David Harris’s channelling of Alan Clark, thriller-writer: ‘He liked powerful women. He liked all women. The only thing better than one woman was two, he mused, recalling his recent encounter with a beautiful mother and daughter…’

The winners, printed below, are rewarded with £30 each.

They were all plotting against him, George Surly concluded, sipping gingerly at his tea lest it, like so much else, prove poisonous.