Just as 23 years earlier Roy Hattersley had been replaced with a tub of lard after pulling out of the show at the last minute, Episode #5.8 (1993), here Conservative MP Nicky Morgan backed out of a guest slot leaving no time to arrange a replacement, so was replaced on Paul Merton's team by a leather handbag. (Morgan had criticized PM Theresa May for wearing a £995 pair of leather trousers; it had subsequently emerged that she herself had spent £950 on a leather handbag.)