Yes says Enfield gleefully that's what I would say if I was a politician - he goes all gruff and posh

"Yes," says Enfield gleefully, "that's what I would say if I was a politician" - he goes all gruff and posh, and bangs the side of his chair - "I demanded his resignation... and six months later HE WAS GONE!" This time, I laugh uproariously. Enfield is a hoot, but only when he is pretending to be someone else. I wonder if awareness of this makes him feel slightly insecure? It may even have been why he got hammered at No 10. Am I drunk, Prime Minister?' To which Blair replied [cue his Blair impression], 'You know, a lot of people think I'm just the man who stands behind the dispatch box'." Enfield roars with laughter again "Bit of a conversation-stopper really.

I think he was trying to say that he is just an ordinary bloke. "Anyway, they didn't like me going public on our conversation, which was a bit rich, seeing as the whole point of the thing was for them to go public on their palliness with lots of celebrities." Indeed And of course, Mandelson did resign. And then I saw Tony Blair, and I went over and said, 'You should sack Mandy for the following reasons...' which was when Ben Elton suddenly came between us, and I said to Lucy, 'Why has Ben barged in?' and she said, 'You're drunk.' "Well, never tell a drunkard he's drunk I said, 'Lucy says I'm drunk. You're credited with making Labour popular again, but you're the least popular member of the Cabinet, so by your own logic you should fall on your sword.' He just sort of grinned at me, so I got embarrassed, I thought he'd at least say something joshy. "So I consulted my legal people, in the person of Ian Hislop And Ian said, 'no, you can't. You'll go down as well'." He laughs uproariously. Enfield is an old hand at political satire.

His big television break was Spitting Image , for which he provided the voices of David Steel, Douglas Hurd, Geoffrey Howe and Ken Livingstone. More recently, of course, he created the revolting Tory Boy , and was duly considered something of a soulmate by New Labour. That is, until he blotted his copybook by drunkenly abusing Peter Mandelson, then Trade Secretary, at a party at 10 Downing Street. The incident has been well-documented, but I am keen to hear it recalled by Enfield himself. "I'd written something rude about Mandelson, and he came up to me and said, 'What have you got against me in particular?' So I said, 'You should resign. But I have never slept much." And that is that. So let's try politics.