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Geoff: Brilliant start but we need to win our home games or its all in vain.

He particularly enjoyed a morality tale about two sisters – one beautiful but "vain and severe", who lost a suitor to her plain, but more agreeable, sibling.

However, shadow chancellor Mel Stride accused the government of not having a plan and of "stalling" the Budget "in the vain hope things might get better".

He looked frail and, for once, wasn’t wearing makeup, which is highly unusual for the famously vain 79-year-old.

"The time for excuses is over… Matt and Rachel's deaths must not be in vain," Sue Arnold said after an inquest, which is yet to deliver its findings.