And while about turns are no bad thing, this was not his first time at the rodeo. That says everything you need to know about his judgment and that of the inferior Government he notionally leads.

After promising (and hitherto failing) to crack down on illegal immigration, Sir Keir vowed to make digital identification compulsory to verify someone’s right to work in the UK.

It was, he said in an effort to sound strong, required as “we need to know who is in our country”.

That in itself is laughable, given that 41,472 illegal migrants entered Britain last year. Those are the ones officials know about. The true number is anyone’s guess.

And it is especially laughable since the public, post-COVID, will not stomach any hint of authoritarian diktats, not least from Labour.

Sir Keir said the “free-of-charge, digital ID mandatory for the right to work” would be introduced by the end of this parliament.

Data would be stored on smartphones and made available on request, potentially exposing the population to state surveillance. It’s just what Labour has always wanted.

Civil liberties campaigners warned Britain would lurch towards a mass surveillance state, and no one should be forced to register.

It was described as “anti-British” and, like almost every policy tabled by this flawed Government, a petition calling on it to scrap the plans received many millions of signatures.

It is now beyond doubt that Sir Keir is a legislative contortionist, someone who attempts to face two different directions at once.

His umpteenth U-turn since becoming PM will now see the landmark scheme watered down with digital IDs becoming optional when they are introduced…in 2029.

It has been another pointless exercise, another indignity, and one which Labour MP Karl Turner said, in something of an understatement, “leaves us looking really stupid”.

Yesterday at Prime Minister’s Questions, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said Sir Keir was “blowing around like a plastic bag in the wind, no sense of direction whatsoever”.

Few will disagree with that and simply laugh at his pitiful assertion his the abrupt volte-face is simply a technical tweak when in all honesty it removes the only compulsory element of the plan, thus eliminating the actual point of the scheme.

This latest mistake will surely be Sir Keir’s undoing, and he will soon be facing only one way – the exit.

He is now a prime minister without authority, devoid of sound judgment, and has long lost the country he promised to change.

Just like the screeching about turns that came before this one, including Winter Fuel Payments, the Farms Tax, and plans to hike business rates on the already battered hospitality industry, this latest abrupt U-turn was no mea culpa.

It was merely symptomatic of the way this disgracefully disingenuous administration governs.

Labour, a party so deeply entrenched in dogma and ideology, knows only one way.

And that is not the words consensus, compromise, negotiation or understanding, for they know best. Or they think they do. Yet this Government commands no authority.

Margaret Thatcher once famously said, “the lady’s not for turning,” and was laser-focused in her attempt to reduce government interference in people’s lives.

Today, we have flip-flopping Sir Keir, a man who is clearly out of his depth, having earned a reputation in record time as a modern-day political shapeshifter.

Britain deserves better.