To remind you of the  chronology: Labour’s Baroness Royall was tasked with investigating anti-Semitism at the Oxford University Labour Club after one of its chairs resigned in disgust at the club’s “problem with Jews”. The party leadership suppressed Royall’s report, and invited Chakrabarti to produce a more wide-ranging one on anti-Semitism “and other forms of racism” within the Labour party. This report was meant to be independent, but, for reasons that would soon become clear, Chakrabarti decided to join the party beforehand. Royall was enlisted as a deputy to this new inquiry, which, it was anticipated, would incorporate her report in full. It did not.

Chakrabarti defended the decision by noting that Royall’s report referenced individual students, whose names it wouldn’t be appropriate to publish. Royall, by now regally fed up, leaked her report. The only student mentioned by name was the one whose resignation prompted the report in the first place.

The Chakrabarti inquiry declared that Labour was “not overrun by anti-Semitism”, a conclusion undermined by the report’s release at a chaotic press conference that saw the party leader compare the Jewish State to IS and one of his Momentum lackeys oblige a Jewish Labour MP to leave the room in tears — all while Corbyn and Lady Justice delivered their remarks behind a sign saying “Standing Up Not Standing By”. The report was a whitewash.

Following a cringe-worthy interview on a Jewish channel when Chakrabarti childishly evaded questions about whether she had been offered a peerage, it was announced that she was indeed receiving one. From Jeremy Corbyn. Who had said he wouldn’t be nominating anyone to the Lords.

The Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, says the credibility of her report lies “in tatters”, but he was being charitable. What really lies in tatters is the reputation, such as it was, of this underwhelming, over-promoted and grossly overrated lawyer.