Ash Sarkar does not want for self-assurance. If the radical left-wing commentator and Jeremy Corbyn champion is not on your radar yet, you’ll know about it when she hoves into view.

She has been deploying her inimitable brand of sass — and sometimes incomprehensible arsenal of slang — online for several years, but has recently become a more familiar sight on television.

On ITV she has taken on Piers Morgan, called for the national anthem to be replaced with a “grime banger” and suggested Princess Michael of Kent can “do one”. Asked by a Tory MP if there’s any British tradition she doesn’t denigrate, she shot back: crisp sandwiches.

After watching her waggle her long, cerulean talons in the face of the Tory party chairman