Love them or hate them, the one thing one could Rely on with previous Conservative governments was that they would be competent. Conservative Prime Ministers were clear and articulate, even if one disagreed with every word they said.

The present government is Incompetent and incoherent. The Prime Minister clearly does not read his briefings, preferring instead to rely on bluster and vague promises and a Micawberish faith that something will turn up. Newspapers that were once sympathetic to him now list his failings and point to the accumulation of broken …