Guido hears that Shueb Salar, the Sadiq Khan aide who was sacked for claiming the murder of Lee Rigby was “fake” and tweeting about “hoes, bitches and faggots“, has been applying to Labour MPs looking for a new job. He hasn’t been suspended from the party then…

So far Salar has been unsuccessful, MPs have only had to Google his name to find out about his unfortunate recent history. They were however surprised to see who Salar had put down as his reference: Sadiq Khan, who publicly has tried to distance himself from his radical aide. “Punctual, conscientious, occasional tendency to extremism…”