SOME arrivals will live forever in the annals of history. Cleopatra sailing into Tarsus for the love of Antony. Stanley hacking his way to Lake Tanganyika in search of Livingstone.

Kezia Dugdale rocking up to I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here was more of a hot sausage rolls emerging from the oven at Greggs kind of occasion, but no matter, the MSP who would not be fenced in at Holyrood was here at last.

As she gazed upon her new campmates, it was hard to tell whether those were stars in her eyes, pound signs, or tears.

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Did the former leader of Scottish Labour have a message for the folks back home? No, but she did have some words for her campmates. “I know who I am and I know what I believe,” she declared.

At least I think that is what she said. It was hard to hear with the collective din being caused by SNP champagne corks popping and Keir Hardie doing 1200 rpm in his grave.

Kez and fellow newbie Iain Lee were told the title of their bush tucker trial: The Battle of Downing Creek. This was more like it, a bit of politics. Hadn’t Kez told her critics that I’m a Celeb was an amazing opportunity to talk to millions of people about Labour and its values? Soon she would be reaching out to that woefully under-served demographic interested in both social justice and watching young women showering.

Alas, it did not work out like that.

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Tiny Torquemadas Ant and Dec explained the rules. The winner would become Jungle Prime Minister and bag the best camp and food for their team. The losers would be left to rough it on rice and beans. With a blast of the horn, Kez and Iain were off.

Onwards Kez crawled, wading through chambers filled with fish guts, worms, toads and spiders. It could have been worse. It could have been old photos of Jim Murphy. Though up to her oxters in ghastliness, multi-tasking Kez proved herself to be quite the Sir David Attenborough. “Oh my God they’ve got claws!” she cried while rummaging around among crabs.

Her enthusiasm was not enough. Still, as Kez led the losing team off to the rotten camp, she refused to feel down. “I’m excited to have a wash, sit by the fire and get to know people."

There speaks a woman who has not had a social life for 10 years.

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With Iain now PM, he got to hand out the jobs, choosing Kez to do the cleaning alongside Amir Khan, the former world champion boxer.

“I’ve slid all the way from being potential prime minister to dunny duty pretty quick,” said Kez.

And it was only day one.