Speaking to Parliament on March 23, Sunak announced a temporary cut in fuel duty of 5p per litre to hard-pressed motorists who have faced spiralling prices for diesel and petrol in recent weeks.

I'll get it, she said. I promised your mother I'd keep an eye on you. Yeah, right, Ronnie thought, you and the Gallo Brothers.

She'd go out begging. Well, truth to tell, we'd go out begging. You know the deal — 'Got any spare change, mister?' — 'Got the price of a cuppa, missus?' Only, me being the size I was, even as a kid, I wasn't much good at it.¶ 'Get a proper job,' they'd say to me. 'Get a job down the mines.' Or the building site. The worst one was, 'What's the matter, you run away from the circus?'

He called Mikkel a pukey little faggot. I'll kick him again when I can get at him.