1. The basic problem the government has, and therefore the country as well, is that those in charge are just not up to the job. They are trying as hard as they can, but their best is not good enough ...

2. Sunak may be the real deal - we’ll see how he handles the aftermath when his real decision-making begins - but if you were choosing now you wouldn’t let people like Hancock, Raab, Williamson, Patel or even Johnson anywhere near this crisis ...

3. They are all working incredibly hard and giving everything they have, but they are second and third raters, in cabinet because they are loyal backers of Brexit, not because they have any real talent ...

4. That, though, is the nature of democratic politics. When an existential crisis hits you have to be lucky to have the right people in the right place at the right time. We were in 1940 and 2008, but this time we’re not and so this will not play out as well as it might have ...

5. The simple fact is that we don’t vote on the basis of who is going to best see us through an existential crisis because - also very luckily - they are few and far between. But even if we had voted on that basis in December the result would have been the same! Ends.