The author of an ode to Tony Blair that has been doing the rounds is puzzling MPs today.
At Downing Street upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't Blair
He wasn't Blair again today
Oh how I wish he'd go away
Who is behind the poem, based on the quatrain by US poet Hughes Mearns?
Alan Duncan, the shadow business secretary, couldn't resist checking out his suspicions that it was none other than his government counterpart, John Hutton, amid rumours that the anonymous bard was a cabinet minister.
In a break from the worthy debate on post office closures earlier today, Duncan checked out his suspicions with Hutton.
A clearly offended Hutton replied: "I would write better poetry than that. Those are absolutely not my words."
So Hutton is out. Then who?
