Spectator competition winners: Liz Truss follows the Yellow Brick Road

In Competition No. 3333 you were invited to submit a short story that features Donald Trump or another politician of your choice in a well-known fictional landscape.

Joan Didion once observed that Ronald Reagan was the American politician to most fully embrace his own fictionality, making up stories in which he played the starring role. Didion put this down to ‘his tendency to see the presidency as a script waiting to be solved’. Needless to say, Reagan didn’t play a starring role in the entry; a medium-sized but impressive postbag was dominated by Donald Trump and Nigel Farage.

Competitors who shone included Sue Pickard, Nicholas Hodgson and Nigel Bennetton. The prize winners, printed below, earn £30.

As Christian plodded through the Slough of Despond he came upon a great multitude, all wearing red caps bearing the legend MAGA, so that he took them to be mages or wise men. ‘Witch-hunt’ they chanted, and ‘stop the steal’, which seemed admirable, especially the invocation of the seventh commandment.