Of course Ed Miliband got ambushed by a bacon sandwich. And Bush had a nasty turn with a pretzel. You have to watch out for these hostile foodstuffs.

He'd better be careful who he throws to the wolves. That can go badly wrong. There was a former government employee on TV pointing out that Boris showed his fundamental political shambolism when he failed to realise that in sacking Dominic Cummings the way he did he was making a deadly enemy of the man with the ability and motivation to destroy him.