
After a troubling 12 months in which they overthrew two prime ministers and watched their support from voters evaporate, Conservative MPs are keeping cheery. They’ve just been on a trip to a fancy £400 a night hotel in Windsor this week, where the prime minister agreed a new Northern Ireland deal with the EU.
Last night new Tory party chairman Greg Hands presided over a pub quiz, with a flurry of questions about past Labour party scandals and embarrassments. We hear housing secretary Michael Gove and his team won the day (and he was credited with most of the correct answers).