Don't get too excited about the ructions in No 10. By the end of the year, when Cain (and possibly Cummings) will leave, their job will be done. Brexit transition will be over, probably without a deal. The UK will be committed to the deregulatory dystopia they've long sought.

Putting a Downing Street advisor's resignation at the top of the headlines during a moment of multiple global and national crises is political reporting at its worst: court gossip masquerading as journalism.

Obsessed by intrigues and machinations, hanging on every hint and gesture, the media ceases to hold power to account, and instead becomes its stenographer.