Like this year’s British summer, it seems spring cleaning by The Sun’s new editor David Dinsmore of its editorial floor has finally arrived – better late than never.

David rang me at my Yorkshire home to tell me that the unethical and unprofessional practice of byline banditry had been ended in all of the newspaper’s editorial departments.

“The policy has gone,” he said. “I agreed with your piece, I’ve spoken to all the desk heads and they’ve agreed it [byline banditry] makes no sense and it won’t happen again.”