“IN the name of God, go!” An immaculately-delivered line from David Davis, who once aspired to lead the Conservative Party himself, poured further trouble on Boris Johnson’s devastated premiership.

The country has limped through this sorry saga for more than a month, and even if Mr Johnson is exonerated by the report, his authority can never recover – he wasn’t able to deliver the evening press conference to announce the ending of restrictions on January 26 which is one of his biggest triumphs.

But what of Christian Wakeford, the Bury South MP who defected to Labour because of Mr Johnson.

Mr Wakeford has been an elected Conservative for a decade; Mr Johnson’s personal popularity in 2019 was responsible for Mr Wakeford winning the red wall seat by just 402 votes, and only a few months ago he was saying how the Tories were now the party of the working man as Labour had lost that mantle forever.

But now he’s sitting with Labour.

And Sir Keir Starmer welcomed him in – even though he was badmouthing everything Labour stood for.

Little wonder people think politicians don’t stand for much, other than their own self interest.

There should be a by-election now in Bury South so the people who wanted a Conservative MP two years can say if that’s still the case. Indeed, it would be an in/out referendum on Mr Johnson’s leadership and a yes/no vote on Mr Starmer’s potential, and perhaps it would put the country out of its current misery.

If anyone should be going in the name of God, it is the floor-crossing Bury South MP.