John Ashworth’s leaked conversation provided the perfect ending to this abattoir detritus-filled election

The shadow health secretary was right when he told his Judas friend that Labour has self-destructed. If the party loses to this monstrous cabal of terminally entitled dodgepots, it will have only itself to blame

For Jonathan Ashworth, the consolation comes in triplicate.

First, he is an object of staggering obscurity to the vaguely normal. Anyone outside the enclave of political hyper-nerdery who claims to have known he was shadow health secretary as long ago as Sunday is hereby awarded summa cum laude honours in Boris Johnson Mendacity Studies from Trump University.

Second, what he said about Jeremy Corbyn, in the phone chat graciously leaked to a partisan website by his former Tory MP “friend”, will have shocked very few souls into changing their vote.