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"The appalling example this episode sets to others needs no emphasis from me."

Since then, she's consistently been treated in inexcusably appalling ways, having her privacy violated and the vilest of commentary directed at her.

She told Sky News: "I can confirm that there are discussions ongoing with the French government about how we stop this appalling and dangerous trade in people that's happening across the English Channel."

But former defence minister Alec Shelbrooke said it was "appalling" that Mr Hart had "destroyed the sanctity of the whips office" by publishing "very private information" in a book.

Partway through the dizzying and appalling last two weeks of trade wars, courtroom battles, street abductions and social media posturing, these two Trump factotums wound up in a war of words.