Theresa May makes life difficult for Rory Bremner

One of the biggest criticisms of the Conservative snap election campaign is that it failed to make the most of the Tories’ economic record. Since then, former minister Rob Halfon has said the party ought to correct this by rebranding as ‘the Workers Party’.

But is Theresa May actually putting people out of work? Mr S only asks after bumping into Rory Bremner at the inaugural fundraising dinner of the Petra Stunt Foundation – in aid of PS Place – this week. After a tumultuous few weeks with little reason for cheer, the impressionist lamented that May’s recent antics meant that it was harder than ever to come up with original material:

‘So, here’s the thing, part of my job is to make politicians more ridiculous than they really are. Have you any idea how hard that is, right now? Honestly, people say “oh you’ve got so much material”, yeah those bastards are writing it twice as fast as we are.