As a counterpoint to Desperate Dorries constantly claiming Johnson is the victim of a witchhunt, it’s interesting to hear the perspective from Starmer that Johnson was ousted as the result of a combination of a long-term strategic plan to pin him down, and his own flawed behaviour and personality.

This is the kind of thing I meant when I said that some of the Tories’ own goals should be partly credited to Starmer.

It’s similar to all the ridiculous flag shagging: that suddenly paid off when Sunak made the unforced error of bailing on the D-Day celebrations, which left Labour an open goal but only because Labour had set themselves up well in the first place. There’s suddenly an obviously ‘patriotic’ party for the people who think that matters (and that it’s indicated primarily by flag shagging). Ditto the Truss budget. Labour wouldn’t have benefited from that if they hadn’t already been banging on about fiscal responsibility.