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If political swamp-dwellers keep on resigning at this rate, The Slog may have to mothball its secret weapon SAM – Send a Message – and simply wait for all the chocolate soldiers to melt.

Regular Slog target Philip Hammond signed off sick with a note from his Mum last week: locals to the seat tell me the largely pro-Brexit Tory activists there weren’t about to break into a sweat to defend the bloke who may well have left us with a Trillion-euro liability at the EIB.

And now we see that Tom ‘Nazi-finder General’ Watson (left) has resigned as an MP in order to focus fulltime on his crusade against sugar. This had nothing, of course, to do with the fact that in West Bromwich, George Galloway is already outpolling him.

Looks like Tom has already got the message.However, after those leaving by the back door before…