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One well-placed Whitehall official said Number 10 had become a "nest of vipers", adding "it's all falling apart in there, it's far worse than the outside world realises."

During an exchange on the Union and the prospect of a second independence referendum, Dr Philippa Whitford asked Alister Jack, the Scotland secretary, whether he believes “the best recipe for a happy marriage is to lock up the wife, take away her chequebook and just keep refusing a divorce?”

As the rest of us crawl out of the Covid trenches - dazed, confused and war-weary - we will be sent straight back to the frontline, to deal with the economic fall-out from Brexit.

Not for the first time, the Conservatives find that their own self-interest and a principle of good governance coincide.

"Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool."

Mr Johnson ramped up the rhetoric saying “stopping the whole criminal justice system from being hamstrung by what the Home Secretary would doubtless – and rightly – call the lefty human rights lawyers, and other do-gooders”.

Kate Bingham hired a boutique PR firm, whose director is a long-term business associate of Sir Humphry Wakefield.

“It’s nothing to do with them and we will get on with our legislation. We are a sovereign nation, that’s what we voted for," IDS said.

Ken Clarke urged colleagues to use “the full extent of the constitutional powers” of Lords to stop the legislation, as the “consequences for this country would be appalling”.