UKTV channel Gold has launched its annual national joke competition to discover the best new Christmas cracker gags – covering all the ups and downs of 2017, as written by the British public.

Last year’s winning one-liner was political pun “How will Christmas dinner be different after Brexit? No Brussels.”, with 2015’s top spot being taken by “Why does Ed Milliband like advent calendars? He gets to open the door to number 10”.