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It is an argument that quite a few Labour MPs make, mostly in private: that this government has allowed itself to become too constrained by Treasury orthodoxy.

Burnham said: "I believe it's right to go all the way and have a deputy leader that is not in the government and thus less constrained by collective responsibility."

They include an innovative fuel system in a ship whose dimensions were constrained by small harbours, Covid, Brexit, management changes and poor decisions which left "legacy challenges throughout the whole build cycle".

The bill was opposed by manufacturers who considered it too constraining and too subject to non-scientific whims.

Meanwhile, Algeria's ambassador Amar Bendjama said the Security Council remained "constrained" as it was "unable even to name the aggressor, to qualify aggression as a violation of international law".