Pinter never created a comedy as dark as the Brexit party

Leaving the EU has effectively left this government unable to pay for its own ambition to level up' the country

I had a unique touch. Absolutely unique. They came up to me. They came up to me and said they were grateful. Champagne we had that night. The lot."

No, this was not Prime Minister Johnson speaking of the now notorious birthday party that was in breach of his own lockdown rules that we in the rest of the country were observing. This is Stanley, the character whose birthday it is in Harold Pinter's macabre comedy The Birthday Party.