Torcuil Crichton: “I shook hands with him yesterday in the Lobby, I congratulated him but I don't really know him.”

The message was quite clear in Makerfield, Scottish and Welsh elections, that people were personally blaming Starmer that no progress was being made in their daily lives.

There are only small violins for the multinationals in the North Sea but complete understanding of the uncertainty facing the workforce who have earned energy security for this country for five decades.

Well there is the voters, and they will have also have to take this responsibility, not just Labour members.

With only 6,700 payments made and some of these for the second time, it is clear that only a fifth of the £10 million allocated to the scheme has been distributed.