Is our Brexit government really the most ill-disciplined cabinet in British political history?

Believe it or not, the number of cabinets that have failed to function in the principal role the constitution provides for it – to govern the nation – are few and far between

The critics are right; this is the most divided, useless cabinet in almost a century.

What a way to break an omerta. Not only is Julian Smith the first government chief whip to blab, but he also used the magnificent “knackered” to describe his physical and emotional conditional, and, obliquely, the state of the second May administration (2017 to…not much longer).

So it is, too – not a very controversial point of view when you think about it. Check out the video of Theresa May outside Number 10 back in the summer of 2016 when she decided to take the job on and end the “burning injustices in society”; an unfortunate phrase as it was to turn out.