If a Labour candidate, standing at the next general election, opposes swathes of this programme, why on earth should they be allowed to stand under the party’s colours? If Mr Corbyn wins the mandate he seeks, it will be his and his party’s mandate; it will not be given to individual candidates who oppose both Mr Corbyn and his policies.

In fact, I will go further (and this is where some criticism of you personally comes in): Chris Williamson, in doing exactly what the hard Left always does when given a glimpse of power, shows us what previous leaders failed to do – including Neil Kinnock, to whom you were once deputy.

When Jeremy Corbyn, as a backbench MP, helped run the campaign to oppose the expulsion of Trotskyists belonging to Militant, that should have rung a few warning bells with you. After he invited Sinn Fein to have a cup of tea with him in the House of Commons just days after the IRA had murdered five people by exploding a bomb in the Brighton Grand Hotel, narrowly failing in their attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister and her government, he should have been at least suspended from the party.