Hardened by experience, along with knowing that Barratt will face a similar treatment to what Kavanaugh received, the Republicans should stand strong.

The only real answer if we want to preserve the United Kingdom is splendid isolation.

One month left to go, eight points down and following on from an unpopular debate performance, the president is running out of time.

Given his populist agenda to revive the high street and ‘level-up’ deprived areas of Britain, Boris Johnson’s eagerness to apply blunt shutdowns in these regions is nothing less than a betrayal of his voters.

The tough intellectual battle that Fox advocates must happen within the Conservative Party. We cannot give up the fight and jump ship so easily.

Parliament may be able to vote on national lockdowns (‘wherever possible’), but it has no power when it comes to ‘local lockdowns’, which currently affect a quarter of all Brits. So much for ‘take back control’.

As tempting as it might be, any such move would set a dangerous precedent and undermine a vital institution.

Starmer knows what steps to take to claim power, but he will always be drowned out by the social progressives who overran the party structure during the Blair and Corbyn years.