Blockhead minister reveals his escape from reality: Lego
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A Cabinet minister has given his advice on how to Lego at the end of a long-day running the country.
Newly-appointed Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright admitted he uses a “very large” Lego collection to unwind at the end of a long day.
Despite complaints from his wife about the size of his trove, he told TalkRadio: "I find Lego therapeutic…
"Everybody who does any difficult or stressful job needs a way to switch off. We all have different ways, mine is Lego."
He added: "In my view it’s a great way of putting your brain into neutral, which sometimes we all need to do."
Mr Wright said he had spent a significant amount of time building a recreation of the Death Star from Star Wars.
A huge battle-station led by a robotic overlord surrounded by faceless bureaucrats may not seem light years away from Westminster, but the Culture Secretary said the process helped him get away from it all.
“Putting Lego together and pulling it apart again is a very therapeutic process," he said.
"Some of the new stuff is very good and the engineering capabilities of those who build and design Lego sets is quite amazing.”
The revelation that Mr Wright spends his spare time playing with toys will surely silence critics who suggested he was not fully across his brief after he admitted to a room full of newspaper editors that he was not subscribed to a single UK newspaper or magazine.
But his boast about completing the 4500-piece Lego Deathstar has already come under scrutiny from the watchdog press after a cursory glance at the instructions show the hulking galactic superweapon only weighs in at 3803 pieces.
