Four days ago, Keir Starmer arrived in Gorton and Denton and delivered the following impassioned statement: 'I want to bring communities together in unity and hope,' he proclaimed.
All that remains is to find out who took the decision to pull the wool over the eyes of the British people - and why. Though we already have evidence to come to some swift and concrete conclusions.
Before I left for the Gorton and Denton by-election, a Labour minister delivered the following upbeat message: 'Everyone thinks Nigel Farage is going to walk it. But I don't think he will.'
Last Thursday, Nigel Farage strolled into the luxury Raffles hotel on Whitehall for a book launch. The author of the 400-page tome was a man called George Cottrell.
Forget for a moment the ongoing - though pointless - debate about Keir Starmer's future. Let's focus on something more fundamental that has emerged over the week.
Even if the PM clings on, we'll end up with all the things we voted against in 2015: higher taxes, harsher decarbonisation, more indulgence of Islamists and more cosying up to Brussels.
On Monday, Keir Starmer survived what has been described as a 'political near death experience'. But after almost 30 years the New Labour project did not.