While it may be tempting to get the popcorn out and just watch the SNP tear itself to pieces over the next few weeks, unfortunately we have to take the contest seriously because one of these actors is going to almost certainly end up being First Minister of Scotland. Humza Yousaf, the Norman Wisdom of the Scottish Cabinet, has a habit of landing on his feet even when he’s stood in a pot of paint and knocked over the scaffolding on the way down.

He is, if accounts are to be believed, the favoured candidate of the SNP leadership. Although how this can be after his disastrous run as Health Secretary, which followed on from his disastrous time as Justice Secretary, following on from his utterly disastrous run as transport minister is a mystery to most observers outside the tent.