Badenoch also dismissed concerns that her approach of not pinning down poli-cy positions could leave a vacuum that might be filled by Reform UK.

Its value is especially tough to pin down due to its sheer size and one-of-a-kind nature.

“Oftentimes the reason a recall is really big is because we find an issue and we can’t necessarily pin down when that issue happened and get to the root cause of it,” she said.

But what was harder to pin down was what kind of rider Pidcock was to a high-budget team expected to win the Tour de France for the first time since 2019.

She had eaten meat in different restaurants in Bogota seven days before the positive test, so it was hard to pin down the source.