The Prime Minister has sunk in the esteem of Tory MPs, ConHome readers and the press because he hides away too much in Downing Street.
Dowden and Rayner traded flouts and jeers, and nobody supposed this was a day when any serious work would be done.
In the same interview he said “I tend to be rather bad at politics”, which is true if one takes the holding of great offices of state as the yardstick of success.
Nor does the PM show any sign of knowing how to keep his followers’ spirits up during the conquest of inflation.
She insists that fiscal responsibility will take priority, but if Labour take power the pressure on her to raise more taxes will be immense.
Her memoir brings out the vitality and good intentions as well as the ludicrousness of the English radical tradition.
The Prime Minister insisted in a sombre tone that the conquest of inflation is what will help mortgage holders.
We see the pendulum swinging towards stricter morality and rules, upheld by the dull, the prudent and the reputable.
The Speaker and the leader of the Scots Nats both rebuked Sunak for giving irrelevant and frivolous non-answers.
Dowden, standing in for Sunak, did not dare to be dull by telling us what this Government is for.
Or does Brussels propose to put up with Orban’s provocations and allow him to assume next year the presidency of the EU?
The attempt this week to silence her when she spoke in Oxford has had the opposite effect of making her and her arguments far better known.
This book will delight many of those who see the Brexit PM as a disgrace.
Week after week the Prime Minister calls the Leader of the Opposition’s bluff and declines to be written off as a moral imbecile.