Briefly entertaining the idea that, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang like, it might be to get the charabanc going again, I ask what it's for.

But let’s not punish Johnson for the mute words of a charabanc.

To shake up tired old politics is one thing; to allegedly inflict bruises on a reporter quite another – a distinction that seems to be getting lost on board the Trumpov charabanc.

One reason that the Trumpov charabanc now looks so chaotic was the departure in August of his top – and pretty much only – political adviser, Roger Stone.

Not that I noticed it arriving as I did in driving rain and wind on a tractor-hauled charabanc called "the toast rack".