From MPs’ demands for peerages to Rishi Sunak calling a minister ‘fucking useless’, stories from former chief whip Simon Hart’s diaries have drawn attention

They say that to govern is to choose, but for one former chief whip it meant rescuing a Conservative MP from a suspected KGB agent in a London brothel.

The story of said MP is one of many colourful anecdotes in Simon Hart’s political diaries, which have become the talk of Westminster this week.