Who deserves the credit – or if you prefer, the blame – for Boris Johnson’s Brexit agreement with the European Union? One Tory MP suggests that it might have been an answer to prayer. Sir David Amess, who was part of a delegation of MPs in Rome for Newman’s canonisation, told the House of Commons on his return: “The House should know that we asked the Holy Father if he would pray for a miracle so that we can deliver Brexit.” Sir David also reported that “when we asked him if the next canonisation would be a British MP, his eyes lifted up to heaven.” Patrick Grady, from the Remain-supporting Scottish National Party, hastened to offer a clarification. “There was a great degree of cross-party consensus,” Grady said, “but praying for a miracle to deliver Brexit was absolutely not part of the SNP’s contribution.”