Thunderbird Hunt and the mystery of the 4 Es

The chancellor’s style is that of a puppet controlled by a puppeteer desperately trying not to fall asleep

The chancellor had already let slip his big Budget announcement the night before, namely the extension of government-subsidised childcare. So it can only be to demonstrate the scale of the current crisis that, on the biggest day of his professional life thus far, Jeremy Hunt had to bring his own children in to work with him, and left them in the peers’ gallery of the House of Commons.

When Mum nipped out briefly, the closest adult to hand was Lee Anderson MP. In professional childcare terms, that’s a ratio of three to one. Twitter users will know that Mr Anderson has certainly coped with larger.

Still, that’s one way to get around the teachers’ strike. Albeit not one that’s much use should your place of work not have its own public gallery.