RISHI SUNAK’S unforgivably callous jibe at trans people, particularly insensitive given that the mother of murdered teenage trans woman Brianna Ghey was sitting in the Commons chamber, overshadowed the rather more substantive point the Prime Minister was, in his usual inept way, struggling to make.

That was the fact that it is impossible to believe a single word Keir Starmer says on policy, given the epic number of reversals he continues to make.

Today it was Labour’s flagship £28 billion a year green prosperity plan which was finally ditched after months of public vacillation.