Must confess to some surprise at how easy it is to expose the lies of a man as brilliant as, we are told, Cummings is.

It's almost enough to make you think that much of the media just wasn't doing its job from 2015 to 2019. After all, he was no more honest then.

Frankly, the hagiographies written about him by Britain's public school commentariat have always baffled me. Amorality - which our failing systems have just let slide - isn't quite the same thing as brilliance.

Anyway. He's played this perfectly imperfectly. I'm now betting he will resign after having, by clinging on, caused immense damage to the Government.