Sir Keir Starmer is inheriting his party’s new legacy: an abandonment of the fundamental idea of ideological dispute between political parties.

As one official put it at the time, “we seem to have got away with” it. You know what, I think the b****r might just be right.

While we continue to lambast one individual for breaking his own rules, we fail to question whether the rules themselves were ever humane, dignified or evidence-based.