Michael Gove raised a few eyebrows when he described Theresa May as “Britain’s first Catholic Prime Minister” two years ago. He pointed out that the Tory leader was a committed Anglo-Catholic like her father, a vicar; practised abstinence during Lent; and was influenced by Catholic social thought.

Much within May’s voting record suggests she was indeed politically informed by her faith. She made a marvellous contribution to tackling the scourge of human trafficking, for instance.

But like her predecessor David Cameron, she embraced the secular consensus on subjects such as marriage and the persecution of Christians enough to justify suspicions in the pews that the country still awaits its “first Catholic Prime Minister”.