Debut fiction by former Conservative Minister George Walden about Billy Sweetman, an amiable middle-aged drunk of an MP who one morning wakes up about half his size. In fact, as Billy discovers, the entire country has shrunk overnight. Billy Sweetman, a middle-aged drunk of an MP wakes up one morning as a dwarf. In fact, the entire country has been dwarfed overnight – but he is the only one who knows. He can’t tell his journalist girlfriend Anita, who would think him mad. As if a dwarfed population is not bad enough the country is also plagued by ‘The Bill’ that has the Little Englanders and Great Britainers at each other’s throats. Awed by his responsibilities, Billy stops drinking, smartens up, becomes a Minister, then Prime Minister. Will he be able to make a difference, though, as a miniature politician?