When Sajid Javid announces today that he is doubling the cash to stop young people turning to crime, it will be the first announcement this week that will not have caused a row.

On Thursday the home secretary reversed decades of government policy on the medicinal use of cannabis, a change long resisted by Theresa May, even after Mr Javid had made up his mind, it seems.

Earlier the same day The Times reported that he had ordered research into why men convicted of grooming-gang sex crimes were disproportionately of Pakistani origin, also going notably further than his predecessors in an area fraught with sensitivities, and backing Sarah Champion, the Labour MP for Rotherham, in the process.

On Monday a letter from Mr Javid emerged