True blue thriller needs approval

WRITING an erotic political thriller is trickier when the Cabinet Office have to sign it off. Cleo Watson, a former Downing Street aide who quit in November, despairs to us about the approval for the provisionally titled Whips!, set in Westminster. Not that Watson, who still works in government, is put off. “It’s hard to come up with stuff that’s worse than what happened,” she laughs before adding: “I’ve been doing lots of research into pegging.”

Sign that off, lawyers.