Grant Shapps, the lighthearted defence secretary with a gag for every warhead | John Crace

The minister did the media rounds, reassuring the public with his infinite levitas that we were safe from our foesCometh the hour, cometh the man. On Monday, Rishi Sunak had laid out his terrifying vision of the future. The collapse of western civilisation. A world of plague and pestilence. Where nuclear war had become a recreational hazard. The British government reduced to infants. Mewling and puking in their mothers’ arms.Enter the Shappster. Man in tights. Rish!’s very own superh