So farewell 2019. The annus horribilis of the 2010s.

We say goodbye to the decade after a year in which we said farewell to so many fixtures in British politics, such as unstable government and John Bercow.

We said goodbye to Nick Clegg who went to Facebook, to James Dyson who left for Singapore, to Tom Watson who went off to be a fitness instructor, and to Keith Vaz, who left to spend all his free time discussing interior decoration and industrial washing machine sales figures with strangers at 11.30pm.

Goodbye to ex-Labour MP Fiona Onasanya comparing herself to Jesus after being jailed for diddling speeding points. Goodbye to Tory MP Jesse Norman saying he would like to spend a day in the shoes of