The Prime Minister delivered a stirring speech on Sunday. The world, he warned, “is in one of the most dangerous periods we’ve ever known”. True and truly terrifying.

But then Rishi Sunak projected himself as the leader we need to guide us safely through this time. Oh dear. Someone tell him (again) that most voters feel he lacks political acumen and perspicacity. He fast-tracked David Cameron into the Lords and appointed him Foreign Secretary – an act of such folly that even some ardent Tories recoiled when it was announced.

Here is Stephen Daisley, a columnist for the Scottish Daily Mail, writing in The Spectator: “This is a man with astonishingly rotten political judgement. The passage of time and the absurdities and indignities of the last seven years may have had a Lethean effect on our collective consciousness, but Cameron was a fount of error and ineptitude in government. Like all public schoolboys, he deploys that Jedi mind trick to convince the hoi polloi he is calm, in charge and following a plan. In fact, he is like so many of his class, a chancer.”

Couldn’t have put it more caustically myself. In the six months since........

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