Dominic Raab, as always, filled in at PMQs with all the wit and charm of an assistant to the regional manager.
A champion wrestler in his University days, Raab reportedly had to grapple the title of Deputy Prime Minister out of Boris Johnson in the last reshuffle.
But with each day it looks more like he'll go down in history as "The Foreign Secretary before the one who got Nazanin out".
Nevertheless, with Johnson busy shaking his begging bowl around the Middle East, it fell to Raab to defend the boss' honour.
Questions came from a typically punchy Angela Rayner - who raised concerns over Johnson's habit of cavorting with wealthy Russian men, one of whom later landed a peerage.
Raab, of course, dismissed the claim that Johnson ignored intelligence service warnings before Lord Lebedev got his peerage as "sheer nonsense".
He dismissed the row as "social media" fodder - but looked a little sheepish having to defend the affair under the gaze of the four visiting Ukrainian MPs in the public gallery.
Tory backbenchers - who finally look like they're starting to run out of yellow and blue outfits - loudly rowed in behind Raab's dutiful defence.
One even loudly declared discussion of the Prime Minister's alleged "attraction" to oligarchs "BORING!"
"The Prime Minister is a very...social individual," Raab said - successfully summing up Johnson's entire character in just eight words.
Raab should write that one down, it's exactly the kind of multi-purpose excuse Johnson needs in 2022.
In fact, if he'd come up with it in time for the Met Police questionnaire, he might have won employee of the month.
But for now, Raab will have to make do with being Boris Johnson's ever loyal subordinate.
