Tony Blair had a big tent. Boris Johnson just wanted a dry one. Better, he thought, to have all the Brexiteers on the inside pointing out than on the outside pointing in, as Theresa May endured for three years. So Priti Patel, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Dominic Raab duly clambered in alongside Johnson (separate sleeping bags, obviously).

But this strategy only works if everyone joins in. And this week one of the Tory party’s most prolific sprayers refused to zip it.

Steve Baker had a difficult decision, one that will divide people, one that he will have to live with for the rest of his life: who is High Wycombe’s cutest pet? This is what he was judging in his constituency instead of climbing into Johnson’s