Cast your mind back to another time, when the world was a very different place. Specifically, Sunday teatime 12 days ago.
It was less than a week before the general election, and there were just 86 seconds remaining in England’s game against Slovakia in the last 16 of the European Championships. England were 1-0 down, and seemingly out of the tournament, heading back in ignominy to a country in political limbo. A depression hung over the nation, in more ways than one.
We all know what happened next. Jude Bellingham’s acrobatic goal kept England in the Euros, Labour won a landslide victory, and now, less than a fortnight later, the national team has, remarkably, made it through to the final.
Our Prime Minister is there in the Oval Office of the White House, joking with the American President about how England have not lost a match under his administration. Sir Keir is asked: Is it coming home, Prime Minister? “It looks like it,”........