Watch: Vote Leave's Dom Cummings is grilled by Andrew Tyrie - 'this sounds like Aladdin's cave to me'

Popcorn at the ready! Today Vote Leave’s Dominic Cummings has been hauled before the Treasury committee to answer questions on ‘the economic and financial costs and benefits of UK’s EU membership’.

To begin this, Cummings — who has been described by former colleagues as a Tory Che Guevara — was grilled by the committee’s chair Andrew Tyrie. The tone was set from the start:

DC: “I’ve got another meeting at four, so I’ll have to be out of here before that.”
AT: “I don’t think you’ve got the hang of these proceedings. We ask the questions and you stay and answer them.”
DC: “I’m just telling you when I’ll be leaving.”
AT: “In that case you’ll be recalled.”
DC: “Fine by me.”
AT: “Will you sit down, please?”
DC: “I’m just turning off my phone. You wouldn’t want my phone to go off, would you?”