Sir Keir Starmer was elected on a clear promise to end the turbulence that so many voters were tired of under previous Conservative administrations. But nothing seems to be stemming the government’s woes – not even the dramatic exits last month of Angela Rayner as Deputy Prime Minister and then Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States.

Suspicions and allegations over dubious donor declarations at Labour Together, the Starmerite think tank, have generated difficult headlines in recent weeks – though the news that they won’t be reinvestigated by the Electoral Commission must have come as a relief.

Now we have a new, multi-pronged scandal burning away over Chinese espionage and influence in the UK.

I warned earlier this year that the new Government was struggling to re-learn th

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