Sir,
Every Labour MP must be making a sacrifice to the gods in gratitude for their party being plucked from the jaws of death and saved from a certain Armageddon in last week’s general election.
No doubt scholar Boris Johnson is also reflecting on that old Latin rendering, quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat – whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad – and wondering if the Tory manifesto was all a terrible nightmare.