Members of the Cabinet can gain up to 100 points in each month’s ConHome league table. In the wake of the last general election, 18 of those who sat around the top table were on more than 50 points. Boris Johnson led the table on 91 points.
This month, only one Cabinet member comes in above 50 points: Kemi Badenoch, who scores 64 points, one more than last month. Sixty four is a lot less than 91, at least when the League Table is concerned.
And only 17 members of the Cabinet are above a lowly ten points – a record in itself. Even last month, which again saw dreadful figures all round, 23 scored more than ten.
Morale seems to be at rock bottom and so are ratings – with eight Ministers, one fewer than our record total of nine, in the red. Rishi Sunak’s score is his lowest ever.
Michael Tomlinson, who has only just settled in as Immigration Minister, comes straight in at the bottom of the table – a verdict not on his record (how could it be?), but on the Government’s.
So ends a dreadful year for Ministers in the League Table – though please note that no verdict on any of them has come close to matching Theresa May, Philip Hammond and Chris Grayling’s record negative scores in April 2019.