OK, I’ll admit to mid-week sub-NME headline Shakespearean wordplay for the sake of it.

But sometimes such foolish serendipity gives rise to interesting thoughts. Given the madness and social media overplay of much national-level politics, wouldn’t the mayor of Manchester have more gravitas staying put? Like Khan in London, Mamdani in New York, even Newsom in California – isn’t there often more sense, more pragmatism and more value in regional and urban politics, than in the grandstanding on the national and international stages?