All three PMs did about as well as anyone could in the circumstances, and all three, so far as one can see, are doomed.
A new study by Anthony Seldon of the office of Prime Minister gives too little credit to the many among its 55 holders whom he dismisses as failures.
He wrote Cameron’s “Hug a Hoody” speech, and during the Barnard Castle affair leapt to the defence of Cummings.
Starmer attacked Johnson for promising not to cut the size of the Army, yet now doing exactly that.
In order to remain world-leading in science, the PM’s former adviser explained, it is necessary to take risks and cut out bureaucracy.
A new volume of essays puts special advisers in historical context, and suggests the Cabinet has been marginalised by a succession of over-mighty PMs.
This old-style socialist turns out to be much more of a small-c conservative than his many critics are willing to admit.
The Prime Minister listened supportively, but jiggled his right knee up and down in a manner suggestive of unbearable mental tension.
It is hard to find any precedent for the path that he has chosen. What furies drive him? Why this frantic activity?
It is not good for the Commons for the Prime Minister to win such easy victories, and may not even be good for Johnson.
The success in procurement and distribution prompts the question of what else we are outstandingly good at.
When his family fell on hard times, education made the difference. Were there to be a vacancy in that department, he would be an obvious candidate.
He attacked the SNP for wanting the poor, hard-pressed taxpayer “to pay for more and more and more”.