Is Rachel Reeves glitching? I mean I probably would be by now if I had her problems, but I don’t think I’d manage to sound quite so terrifying as our dear Chancellor did today. Standing before what is surely one of the most pointless political conferences of our times, Reeves no doubt meant to sound rousing when she said: “Don’t ever let anyone tell you there is no difference between a Labour government and a Conservative government.”

She received enthusiastic applause from Labourites gathered in Liverpool who seem to have missed the delicious weirdness of the soundbite. Reeves’ eyes darted left to right in a robotic frenzy, she turned her head likewise as she barked her line in a stilted staccato that has been described online as “full Dalek”.

How fitting that this passionate rallying cry had its zeal stripped away by a botched delivery. What a perfect microcosm for such a sorry Government.

A Government that promised to SMASH THE GANGS and in doing so solve the small boats crisis plaguing our Channel, then actually delivered the lamentable one-in, one-out deal.

A Government that assured the British people it would go for growth, then failed to secure it in any meaningful sense. A Prime Minister who promised to “treat more lightly” on Brits’ lives only to whip out proposals for Digital IDs.

But then that’s befitting of a man who warned that immigration was pushing the UK toward “becoming an island of strangers” only to then renounce his remarks in a later interview.

And should we really be surprised that Sir Keir’s number two has come over all android? Her leader is a bloke who says he doesn’t dream and doesn’t have a favourite book or poem.

Treasury official Darren Jones told us in July last year that “the adults are back in the room”. Instead we have automatons.