So now we know. Keir Starmer's response to the drubbing he and his party received in Thursday's local elections will not be a reverse on winter fuel. Or a clear response to spiralling immigration.
It was only six votes. But when people come to write the history, Keir Starmer's defeat in the Runcorn by-election will probably come to be viewed as the beginning of the end of his premiership.
When was the last time a trade-union leader standing alongside their members in a fight for their livelihoods generated such widespread media interest?
Elbows Up. The phrase had become the unofficial slogan of Canadians opposed to Donald Trump 's attempt to press-gang their nation into becoming the 51st US state.
Number 10 officials are glad Keir Starmer chose the past week to be on holiday. 'With Arsenal beating Real Madrid, he'd have been insufferable,' one senior staffer joked.