On The Andrew Marr Show, Jeremy Corbyn repeated that he was willing to forgive Labour MPs for their disloyalty. Andrew Marr wondered whether he was including Hilary Benn, who in June said he’d lost confidence in Mr Corbyn’s leadership, and was promptly fired from the shadow cabinet. “Would you like to see him back in your team?” asked Marr.

“He wants to be the chair of the select committee on Brexit,” replied Mr Corbyn, instantly and firmly.

We’ll take that as a no, then.

It was day one of Labour’s conference in Liverpool. The most exciting action, though, was taking place not in the official conference hall, but 15 minutes down the road, at the simultaneous festival in honour of Mr Corbyn being held by Momentum, his furiously devout campaign group. Yesterday it played host to a special literary event. A reading of poems about their hero.