WATCH: Long-Bailey contradicts Corbyn. She suggests there should be a referendum before an election.

“She explains that she has been “on a journey” – and has come round to the idea of a public vote.

Neil O’Brien: Corbynomics – and why it means that your house, business and savings don’t really belong to you

In his eyes, you have them only as long as the Government suffers you to have them, and they can be retrospectively taken away if he sees fit.

WATCH: “Anybody who outshines the Dear Leader risks being airbrushed out of history” – Lidington cautions Long-Bailey

He wonders why it is that Thornberry, his usual jousting partner, is not being allowed to stand in for Corbyn this week.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Long-Bailey seeks to make Lidington responsible for Trump

Corbyn’s new stand-in was strikingly self-possessed.

WATCH: Long-Bailey calls for a second referendum to be “kept on the table”

“Our policy asks us to ask for one,” she tells Marr. “Discussions with the Government will continue next week.”

WATCH: Long-Bailey – Remain “may well be” an option in a Labour-backed second public vote

She also says that Labour “respects the referendum result” but that the party rejects No Deal.

WATCH: Long-Bailey says there are ‘a number of issues’ with the Norway model

Labour’s whip on the Lords’ EEA amendment has yet to be decided.

Iain Dale: Help me and others to get justice for Worboys’ victims

Plus: Corbyn’s lack of private sector experience. And, come to think of it, his lack of public sector experience. And: justice for Worboys’ victims.

Iain Dale: Pull yourselves together, Johnson, Hammond – the whole squabbling lot of you. Or we’ll have Corbyn in Downing Street.

Plus: The Labour leader’s other Brighton speech: “It was a full-blown Marxist rant. Put up taxes. Employers are evil. You know the sort of thing. They lapped it up.”

Matthew Ellery: Both possible successors to Corbyn have electorally disastrous views on the EU

This offers May an historic opportunity.