Boris Johnson’s body language was not a sight for the squeamish today.
Scuttling into the House with Sunak, looking like two schoolboys called before the head, he sat with his head sunk low and his shoulders hunched up to above ear height in a guilty-looking crouch while Sunak sat behind him, over-straightening his tie in what looked like a signal of inner anxiety.
The Prime Minister has recently become very good at delivering apologies but this was his poorest performance to date.