Be honest, we’d have done the same. Faced with the prospect of three long hours debating the devolutionary consequences of Brexit, Ian Blackford orchestrated a way to be kicked out of the Commons, taking his mates with him, just in time for lunch. (And the lunchtime news.)

The only flaw in this plan was the fact that he was the one who called the debate. And if there is any point in being the leader of the Scottish National Party in Westminster — and there might not be — it is surely debating devolution. And the whisky-tasting receptions.

Instead, having demanded Scotland be given a voice, Mr Blackford silenced himself. “I want a wee dram and I want it now,” he declared before whacking the