Saving his worst for last, Jeremy Corbyn, in reply to the budget, gave the most lamentable performance by a senior politician I can recall. His own tenure at the top of his failed experiment is nearly over but the battle for the inheritance is still on. The last days of Corbyn contain vignettes which show how the Labour Party reached this point and how deep is the hole into which it has fallen.

The story began on Monday when Labour high command decided that a government struggling to contain a nasty virus could do with some help in the publicity department, so it admitted that it had suspended the party membership of Trevor Phillips, former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, for alleged