This brief anecdote about Ed Vaizey being fired by Theresa May has a bittersweet, comic touch to it

@Nicfildes over on Twitter says, “Nice ironic tone here from @edvaizey about waiting to be sacked in a mobile notspot area”

And a transcript if that’s hard to read on your Amsphone or whatever it is you use these days

‘Vaizey is sanguine about his demotion.

“I’ve perfected an after-dinner speech about all my political catastrophes going back 20 years, and I will certainly add my sacking by Theresa May to it,” he says.

“I was driving in Oxfordshire when I took the call — I hasten to add on a hands-free phone.

It was someone from Downing Street saying that the prime minister would call me in 15 minutes.

As I carried on driving I realised that I’d lost my mobile signal.

I thought that would be the final irony: the PM not being able to sack her telecoms minister because he can’t get a signal on his mobile.

Eventually I pulled up in Henley and waited for the call.”’

Source: Twitter/@NicFildes