Over the last four years, the Lib Dems have demanded Parliament be recalled during recess no fewer than nine times.

The latest bid to drag MPs back to Westminster came on Thursday when they urged the UK Government to bring forward emergency legislation to let pubs in England serve alcohol from 10am in time for the World Cup final.

Unsurprisingly, folk in Milton Keynes only being allowed to drink Appletise in Wetherspoons of a morning was not a serious enough catastrophe for the 35th recall of the Mother of All Parliaments.

Though had MPs headed to SW1 yesterday, it would have allowed the SNP to move the writ for the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election sooner than planned.

Instead of having to wait until October for the vote, Ruglonians could have got the whole thing out of the way before the September weekend.

But, with no firm date in mind, the longest by-election campaign in Scottish history continues to crawl on.

I feel particularly sorry for the folk on Rutherglen High Street just trying to get their messages, constantly having to dodge cameras and journos asking what they think.

They’ve got weeks more of this. I’ve got weeks more of this. I think I’ve already been in Rutherglen Exchange more than I’ve been in my flat this summer.

I was there on Wednesday for what's known as a huddle with Keir Starmer.

The huddle is a sort of organised rammy where reporters from every paper circle the interviewee and take turns to shout questions.

My favourite came from a colleague at the Sun.

There are nine members of the Labour shadow cabinet at Holyrood, the super soaraway hack told the party leader. “Can you name four of them and what their briefs are?”

The disdain from Sir Keir, from Anas Sarwar, from the Labour spinners was palpable.

“I’m not going to engage in those sort of trippy-uppy questions,” an exasperated Sir Keir replied.

“Honestly,” he sighed.

It was a principled position for Sir Keir to take.

He is a serious politician. He’s not here in South Lanarkshire to get drawn in by gotcha journalism.

Of course when the paper asked Rishi Sunak the same question last week, and he failed to answer, it was a different story.

"This shows just how out of touch with Scotland Rishi Sunak is, and how anonymous Douglas Ross's terrible Tory front bench is too,” Dame Jackie Baillie hooted.

“In five years' time, Ross and Sunak will be obscure answers in pub quizzes - not party leaders,” she added.

Awkward.

Let’s end on another pub quiz question, how many times have the Lib Dems' call for a recall of parliament been successful?

The answer? Zero. Maybe next time, lads.