Labour’s Dawn Butler was one of the few to battle for the rights of the individual over the state.
The implications of the crisis are such that Johnson and Sunak need not so much to think outside the box as to trample it to tatters altogether.
A new history just blames the Prussians, the Protestants and the East Germans for everything that has gone wrong in German history.
Plus: maintaining a sense of decorum and how a conference pass crisis was averted.