Are you one of the many people who are of the opinion that politicians are devious? You don't know the half of it. Meet The Right Hon Hugh Pugh MP, a politician who makes Gordon Brown look like Little Lord Fauntleroy. We couldn't be meeting Pugh, the Secretary of State for Transport, at a more traumatic time. A general election is only months away and it's a racing certainty that following it he will be out of a job. As things stand he can barely keep his head above water on his ministerial income plus what he is still able to fiddle on expenses, what with maintenance payments to make to three ex-wives, four of his children at private schools and the latest in a string of high-maintenance girlfriends to keep fed, shod and watered; deprived of the spoils of government office his future doesn't even bear thinking about. But then fate takes a hand when he inherits his late brother's inflatable rubber woman factory. After reading Terry Ravenscroft's hilarious Inflatable Hugh you will not be able to look at a politician without suspicion in either of his faces ever again.
