And, he added: "I would not advise that this shortcoming should be taken as a breach of the ministerial code, but you will want to consider her ongoing responsibilities in the light of this."

She told the Local Democracy Reporting Service she had a "really good conversation about different possible actions or schemes that could be taken forward".

Leslie Davies, 77, from Nixonville in Merthyr Vale said he was seeing former colleagues dying, and action needed to be taken soon, and equity was needed between the two pension schemes.

Meanwhile, currently, 1,400 GP practices across England are using the C the Signs, a platform which uses AI to analyse patients’ medical records and check different signs, symptoms and risk factors of cancer, and recommend what action should be taken.

Still, his saber- and tariff-rattling deserves to be taken seriously.