Sitting alone in the gallery for the second reading of the Rwanda Bill was none other than Dr David Starkey. With long white hair and a Byronic air, he looked down upon the MPs - the historian visibly disappointed with the era he’s forced to live in.
The immigration minister quit over the prime minister’s Rwanda Bill on Wednesday as Suella Braverman warned that the Tories were heading for “electoral oblivion”.
Sir Keir Starmer is becoming a lucky general. Whenever the Conservative gloom briefly lifts and Rishi Sunak readies himself to bask in a rare ray of good news it is almost instantly eclipsed by yet more problems.