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The increase to basic pay would be backdated to 1 April, with the most junior consultants earning over £100,000 and the most senior over £142,000.

“She was relentless in going out and engaging everyone, from the most junior Hill staffers to the most senior administration officials, on what the issues were and what needed to be done,” said George Biddle, a former executive vice president of the International Rescue Committee.

McConnell’s path to power was hardly linear, but from the day he walked onto the Senate floor in 1985 and took his seat as the most junior Republican senator, he set his sights on being the party leader.

His lawyer said the most junior officer on scene was a scapegoat in a prosecution driven by politics.

Conservative media and social media stardom have turned even the most junior and otherwise inconsequential figures — say, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, the architect of this speaker-less anarchy — into power brokers who insist on having their sway.