Author Robert Harris: ‘One of things that has come out of Brexit is realisation of how fragile our food supply chain is’

If a thriller writer had created a situation as chaotic as the one being played out in Westminster, publishers may well have passed on it for being too far fetched.

One writer who is no stranger to political intrigue is the novelist and former journalist Robert Harris.

His first book Fatherland was set in a world where Germany had won the Second World War. He has a new book out called The Second Sleep.