It’s nice, isn’t it. The quiet. Just sixteen months after their landslide triumph, the Labour party is now in full-on meltdown. The decision by Downing Street sources last night to launch a pre-emptive missile at Wes Streeting appears to have backfired spectacularly, as the popular Health Secretary handled today’s morning media round with aplomb. Gee, who could have foreseen that eh?

Asked to rule out demanding Starmer’s resignation after the Budget, Streeting told Sky News: ‘Yes, and nor did I shoot JFK. I don’t know where Lord Lucan is, had nothing to do with Shergar, and I do think that the US did manage to do the moon landings. I don’t think they were fake.’ He went on to rebuke the senior aides behind the anonymous briefings and said they proved that ‘there are people around the prime minister who do not follow his model and style of leadership.’ How generous of him to assume that there is one…

Elsewhere, Streeting told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the attacks on him showed that ‘Lucy Powell was right about the culture of No. 10 and I would just like to commend the briefer on at least picking on one of the men instead of the women in the cabinet’. Men, women, whatever your gender, all are unhappy in Keir Starmer’s changed Labour party.