What everyone knows but no one says about Brexit

Theresa May’s premiership is now a memory. Boris Johnson’s time in office assumes the status of a rather brief, if often embarrassing, interlude. Liz Truss has gone in short order. The threat of a comeback by Johnson has been lifted. What a rollercoaster.

Each of these events, in its time, took centre-stage in our politics and each prime minister became for a while the object of contempt, suspicion and rage. I called Mrs May the death star of British politics; I called Mr Johnson a moral toad; I called Liz Truss a planet-sized mass of over-confidence and ambition teetering on a pinhead of a political brain. Invective comes easy and, though I’ve been at the shriller end of the range of media wrath, I was far from alone among British media observers in the energetic expression of reproach.

There will now follow a pause before, one fears, Rishi Sunak finds himself in the crosshairs of a nation and its Greek chorus of media commentary looking for someone new to blame.