[Chris O'Carroll]

No 4281
By Leonora Caseement

Back in the early Nineties we ran a comp asking for letters of resignation from an unnamed minister to his or her prime minister, the point being that these days it takes quite a lot to prompt such a step. The top winner (T Griffiths) began: “Dear PM, as you know, I have recently undergone metamorphosis into a beetle . . .” Can you better that 20 years on?
Max 150 words by 27 June comp@newstatesman.co.uk