He had just plucked up the courage to say how much he loved her in Dragon’s Den, when he found she’d gone - replaced by a cadaverous old Lord. When a space became available next to her, Lord Hayward quickly filled it, looking like the cat who got the cream. Spotted through my opera glasses were Peter Mandelson, John Reid, Sayeeda Warsi and, bringing the median age down by half, the beautiful businesswoman and Apprentice star Karren Brady, sitting at the steps of the royal throne. Cameron is a star to this political generation the way Vera Lynn was to the last, embodying a pre-Brexit era of consensus and conviviality. In fact, the peers were in a frisky mood, for the first question - not to Cameron, thank heavens - was about venereal disease, allowing various Lords to use the word “condom” even though few could remember what it meant and nobody had a use for one. “It’ll be like taking candy from a baby.” Or Horlicks from a grandma.

“Old muggins here is taking my first questions in the Lords,” he replied.

While Cleverly looked at human skulls (I’m not making that up), David Cameron, his successor as foreign secretary, chuckled over his Westminster fry-up. James Cleverly was in Rwanda to sign a treaty affirming that the country is absolutely, definitely safe to take refugees, and to ram the point home they took him on a tour of their genocide memorial.

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