To understand how a June general election is entirely feasible, likely and possibly already being planned for, you must first understand human nature as in the pursuit of power and consider the possibility that Theresa May is a woman who has had just about as much failure as any ambitious woman who took a lifetime to realise her goal can take.

She called a disastrous snap general election in 2017, lost 33 of my colleagues and suffered the worst parliamentary defeat ever. That’s nothing like Margaret Thatcher’s record, is it? Hardly Iron Lady mark two.

Anyone who thinks that every night she places her copy of Erskine May on the bedside table, rolls over, turns out the light and thinks to herself, “oh well, never