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Dan Carden has resigned from the Labour front bench in order to vote against this evening's Third Reading of the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill. Cue the usual derision.

But imagine that the Blair Government had introduced this Bill. This is the kind of thing that that Government used to do, or try to do. Just imagine that. Would you have been so keen on it then?

Or imagine that Keir Starmer, who is a former Director of Public Prosecutions rather than a "human rights lawyer", were trying to put this astonishing piece of legislation on the Statute Book. Would you be so keen on it then, either?

Tomorrow morning, each of Labour's affiliated trade unions should reduce its funding of the party by the proportion of Labour MPs that had failed to vote against the legalisation of the murder of that union's members by the agents of the State.