In October 2019 I was invited to take part in a discussion on BBC Newsnight about Boris Johnson and his General Election hopes.
Just weeks earlier, supreme court judges had ruled that the Prime Minister's cynical and frankly outrageous decision to suspend - or prorogue - Parliament had been unlawful.
Johnson had insisted the move was required so he could outline his government's policies in a Queen's Speech, but anyone with even a passing interest in the politics of the time - or knowledge of the character of the man - knew this to be completely untrue.
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Instead it was clear that the Prime Minister wanted to stop MPs scrutinising his Brexit plans. He wanted to avoid scrutiny and believed he could do whatever he wanted in order to get his own way - including misleading the Queen.
That this shameful episode was so quickly forgotten is partly down to the remarkable events that followed it - Johnson swept to victory in the election of December 2019 and the generation-defining pandemic arrived on our shores just a couple of months later.
But it is also Johnson's remarkable run of scandals, lies and inappropriate behaviours - both before and during his time in the highest office in the land - that perhaps make what would ordinarily be shocking individual moments rather quickly fade into history.
But in Liverpool, the memories of the pain caused by this man and his cavalier approach to the truth were never going to be so quickly forgotten.
During that Newsnight discussion of October 2019 I was asked the rather amusing question of whether 'Liverpool might be swayed' by Johnson's rhetoric and message ahead of the election.
It was one of the easier questions I've ever had to answer - and not just because the city is about as firm a Labour stronghold as there is.
Liverpool would of course firmly reject him at the ballot box, on a night when so many former Labour strongholds fell to the Tories.
But this was not just about red or blue - this city had rightly not forgotten Johnson's role as editor of The Spectator magazine when it so callously besmirched the reputations of everyone in this fine city.
The Prime Minister allowed disgraceful words to be published about hard-working Scousers, the Hillsborough families and Ken Bigley, the Liverpool engineer so brutally murdered in Iraq in 2004.
Johnson was dragged up to the city by then Tory leader Michael Howard to offer a very forced apology - but when asked to say sorry from the dispatch box in his first session as Prime Minister, he simply refused.
Not that it would have made much difference - Scousers already had the measure of the man.
As Liverpool MP Maria Eagle put it in that same session, 'Boris Johnson is a charlatan and a liar - the people of Liverpool have known this for a long time."
Now it would seem the rest of the country is finally waking up to that same conclusion that people in this city made a long time ago.
The continued revelations of lockdown-breaking Downing Street parties, attended by the Prime Minister, at a time when so many were suffering in the most cruel of situations and so resolutely adhering to the rules he had put in place, strike at the heart of his character.
His failure to admit what he did, to take responsibility for the pain he has caused to so many, just emphasises what Scousers have always known.
Boris Johnson doesn't care about you, he doesn't care about the truth and he is entirely unfit to lead this country.
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