“With Rishi Sunak we’ve seen the wheels come off,” says the Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer John Crace.
“I’m less interested in the externals of our politicians, I’m more interested in doing a deconstruction of their psyche. I kind of consider myself as an unpaid therapist to the cabinet, really, and with Rishi we’ve seen a really tetchy, thin-skinned man.”
Crace, the author of Depraved New World: Please Hold, the Government Will Be With You Shortly, tells Nosheen Iqbal about the moments that amused and horrified him this year. There’s been no shortage of material for his sketches this year, from the politicians who boldly returned from the political wilderness to the books of Matt Hancock, Nadine Dorries and Prince Harry.
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