Even Reform and the Tories had to admit that Shabana Mahmood’s performance in the Commons on Tuesday was an impressive one. The Home Secretary set out a number of sensible reforms in the right direction, delivered with a passion and a zeal that rivalled even Nigel Farage.

While it’s highly likely many of Ms Mahmood’s reforms would fall short of what is necessary, many on the Right would be minded to at least give her the opportunity to prove herself. In stark contrast, we saw the Left once again lose their heads, with MPs from a number of rival cabals competing to see who could sound the most hysterical. The biggest immediate problem for the Home Secretary isn’t British courts, or even the European Convention on Human Rights, but her own backbenchers – who are being egged on by the Greens and Your Party.

Before Ms Mahmood rose to her feet at 5.30pm, no fewer than 16 sitting Labour MPs had already publicly condemned the policy and demanded a reversal.

Brian Leishman said there was a “real degree of disgust at some of these proposals”.

Richard Burgon branded the reforms “morally wrong” and “politically disastrous”.

Ian Byrne blasted: “It’s morally bankrupt and politically disastrous – our party won’t win voters back this way. Those who’ve left have turned to progressive parties, and those who’ve stayed will be appalled by these latest attacks on people fleeing war”

Then in the Commons, the wave of Left-wing lunacy reached a crescendo.

Zarah Sultana, who made Jeremy Corbyn’s own objections to the changes sound positively centrist, began by suggesting that our Muslim son-of-immigrants Home Secretary was echoing the lessons of Enoch Powell. She then ramped it up a gear to compare parts of Labour’s policies to the Nazis, and then asked whether she is pleased to have been backed by Tommy Robinson.

Apsana Begum argued that returning asylum seekers to their home countries as and when their home countries become safe places to live “is simply wrong”.

Gaza independent Iqbal Mohamed repeated the absurd claim that Britain is liable for mass illegal migration because of intervention in foreign wars, which must come as a surprise to all the Albanians and Indians crossing the Channel.

To once again give Ms Mahmood her well-deserved dues, she dealt with many of these absurd counter-arguments very well, even humiliating her own party’s backbenchers for failing to understand Labour’s policy.

Luton MP Sarah Owen accused the Home Secretary of wanting to take jewellery and personal belongings of migrants when they arrive in Britain, with the Home Secretary hitting back: “We will not, and never will, seize people’s jewellery at the border. We are not going after their sentimental items, such as wedding rings.

“I hope that my honourable friend will not perpetuate what is being said about jewellery, because I have clearly ruled that out in the House today.”

Surely the best dressing down – perhaps the best moment by a Labour minister since this government came to power – was reserved for the Lib Dems, who were out in full Gails-loving, croissant-eating deluded metropolitan grandeur.

Max Wilkinson, the MP for the leafy Cotswold town of Cheltenham – where luxury shopping boutiques just about outweigh the number of illegal migrants – accused the Home Secretary of “stoking division by using immoderate language”.

Looking like she was about to vaporise Mr Wilkinson with fire from her nostrils, Ms Mahmood blasted: “I wish I had the privilege of walking around this country and not seeing the division that the issue of migration and the asylum system is creating across this country.

“Unlike the honourable gentleman, unfortunately, I am the one who is regularly called a ‘f***** P***’ and told to ‘go back home’.

“I know through personal experience and through the experience of my constituents just how divisive the issue of asylum has become in our country.

“I do not think it is acceptable or appropriate for people in this place not to acknowledge the real experience of those who sit outside this House.

“We are supposed to be in this House to reflect that experience, and I hope the hon gentleman will approach the debates that we will no doubt have on all these measures in that spirit.”

The Green Party’s Carla Denyer was also torn apart over her hypocrisy of demanding Britain take in endless asylum seekers, only to reject housing them in her pretty, uber-middle-class constituency.

Ms Mahmood batted excellently. Unfortunately for her, what matters in Parliament isn’t the views of voters, but the deluded views of far too numerous hard-Left MPs, who will do their best to prevent Britain from ever controlling her borders.