Morrison's task was to keep the pastiche in motion for a 250-page book that worked as a story as well as a political joke. As with Daisy Pulls It Off (Denise Deegan's homage to Angela Brazil), he, too, has pulled it off. Other drolly named characters include Hattersley the burly gamekeeper, Irvine the brutish factotum and Campbell the dodgy editor of the school mag. "Ma Mowlem's boatyard" and "Berlusconi's ice cream parlour" are exactly right Morrison doesn't just go for the obvious gags. The Head Beak Dr Bush is a scholar and an expert in obscure bits of the Old Testament. Anthony Blair, Captain of School is a ripping yarn in which the eponymous hero befriends and then bests "Brown from Kirkcaldy", with the help of sneaky sprog Mandelson. After the death of head-boy-in-waiting John Smith in an equine accident (as shown in one of David Alan Hopkins's illustrations), the pushy Blair takes pole position.

Full of the good intentions with which the road to hell is paved, he charges into a jolly awful disaster involving the Edwardian equivalent of WMD The author chappie has done his homework - or prep. Sue Townsend put Tony Blair in drag for her Number Ten. John Morrison, former Reuters correspondent in Westminster, turns him into a teenager and sends him back in time. Resort cottages near Deauville from €240,000 (