“Theresa May could be gone by Christmas as up to 30 MPs plot to oust her.” A striking headline which should worry No 10.

“Up to 40 Tory MPs now ready to sign letter of no confidence in Theresa May” screams another.

Except both are from a year ago. And May survived not just until Christmas but through the hilariously bad reshuffle, the spring of discontent, the summer of resignations, and now we enter the autumn of more of the same.

There were fresh reports overnight of plotting and letters. The BBC reports that as many as 50 members of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s European Research Group met last night and openly discussed “how best you game the leadership election rules”. That’s more than enough to trigger