Woolfe, the MEP for North West England, says he had a designer suit taken. “We think the belongings were stolen from Steven’s locked office in Strasbourg. We are currently putting in a claim,” his spokesman tells me. The thefts were discovered last week as MEPs arrived in Strasbourg for the parliament’s relocation that sees 1,000 politicians, officials and translators relocate to France from Belgium for four days a month. This arrangement – which is nicknamed the “travelling circus” – costs £130 million and involves 2,500 metal trunks being driven nearly 300 miles from Brussels to Strasbourg.