The comedians on Mock The Week joke about the departure of Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney in the episode airing on TLC on Sunday.

Sara Pascoe joked: ‘They came as a pair, you know McSweeney came up with the ideas, Kier Starmer was sort of putting it into action. They should have left at the same time, like Tess and Claudia.'

And Hugh Dennis – who is back on this week’s show but no longer a series regular – added: ‘Dara and I left at the same time but he came back first.'

During the round You Think that’s Bad, the comedians step away from the headlines to share tales of woe -

Pascoe said: ‘I have therapy and I was telling my therapist how I was bullied in school and she said oh that’s not bullying, you just weren’t liked.’

Glenn Moore added: ‘You think that’s bad, my therapist actually recommended I quit doing stand-up… in a You Tube comment about six months before we met."

Also in this week’s episode, Dara despairs as the panel unpacks Elon Musk’s plan to fling a million solar-powered satellites into space before immediately bombarding Dara with science questions about how they’re supposed to work when it’s ‘dark’ up there.

And series regular Rhys James delivers a speech as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, with Dennis translating what he really meant..

Katherine Ryan and Sarah Keyworth also appear on this week’s show, airing on Sunday at 9pm on TLC.  

Next week's guests are  Angela Barnes, Sean McLoughlin, Alasdair Beckett-King, Mark Simmons and Ria Lina.