It’s been a difficult decision to make, but I have to say that last night, for the first time I saw something since that Brussels summit that actually was optimistic; because I saw Boris Johnson on a video saying: ‘We will not extend the transition period beyond the end of 2020’. And that, in many ways, a direct challenge to Mr Barnier [the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator] that would need a change to the political declaration before all of this gets ratified in parliament.

Now you may well say to me: isn’t this the same Boris Johnson who said he’d die in a ditch rather than extend from 31 October? And yes, the issue of trust, the issue of delivery is a very real one and I’ll come back to that perhaps in a few moments’ time. But at least it was a clear, unequivocal statement from him, that we’re not going on beyond the end of 2020.

But much more significantly – and really quite unreported on so far today – he said something else that really did matter to me, hugely. He said we would negotiate a trade deal, a super-Canada-plus trade deal with no political alignment. Now, that is a huge change because ever since Mrs May’s abject speech in Florence, we’ve been aiming at a close and special partnership with the European Union.