Fresh

from admitting that he once smoked cannabis, Tory MP James Cleverly (Braintree) has been talking about the game snog, Marry, Avoid (which forces you to choose one of those options with a range of people whose names are put to you). When given Labour rival Yvette Cooper’s name, he answered: ‘Marry.’ I wonder how her pugnacious house-husband ed Balls has reacted!