Uh oh. In the latest election drama, Tory candidate for North West Essex and business secretary Kemi Badenoch has taken aim at Labour’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell. The lefty spinner has a well-documented history of Brexit-bashing and Badenoch, it seems, has had enough.

Urging readers of the Daily Mail to ignore Brexit sceptics and vote for the Conservatives ‘to stop us going back to square one’, the minister writes in the newspaper today that voting Labour means ‘enabling a strengthened Starmer to unpick Brexit’.