So Theresa May has resigned, effective June 7. That means she will still be Conservative leader during what will surely be a Tory rout in the Peterborough by-election, rather than a new leader starting off with a humiliating defeat, and she can see through the Trump visit.

When a Prime Minister resigns, it is customary to say something like “As with almost all politicians, her career has ended in failure, but with the perspective of time, future historians will view her period in office more kindly, with her accomplishments enduring and her failures passing away.” But in the case of Theresa May this would be simply wrong. History will not view her kindly. It will be much less kind about her than her contemporaries have been.

By any objective measure, she will go down in history as the worst Prime Minister of all time. What is her legacy? She holds a number of records. She had the largest Commons defeat ever on a government motion (230 votes). She induced the largest swing against her party ever during a General Election campaign (more than 10 per cent). She led the first government ever to be held in contempt by Parliament. She has led her party to what will surely be its lowest ever vote share in the 2019 European Elections.