Andy Richardson: 'The buck stops with Number 10'

There’s also a case to be made that Ed Miliband is responsible for the mess in which his party finds itself. Had he not challenged his more popular brother, David, for the Labour leadership, Labour most likely would have returned to power. The sequence of events that led to the disaster of Jeremy Corbyn would not have happened. He owes Labour one.

He started to repay that debt when he eviscerated the shuffling, grumpy Prime Minister across the Dispatch Box in the House of Commons. Standing in for Sir Keir Starmer, Miliband felt he had right on his side as he lambasted a law-breaking Prime Minister who has offended such High Priests of Brexit as Lord Michael Howard.