“As long as the press sees sex and drugs behind the left hand, you can park a battle carrier behind the right hand and no one’s gonna fucking notice.”

PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN – Gust Avrakotos

Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)

So what exactly does appointing David Cameron (Baron Cameron of Greensill fame) bring to the table? I have seen it argued that one of the reasons why Baron Cameron has been appointed is to reassure the more liberal Conservative voters in the Home Counties of England that things are OK under a Conservative Prime Minister who is a hard Brexiteer. If I were one of those voters I would take one look at Cameron and think he was the one who allowed the referendum to take place and thus split the country down the middle and then immediately quit. Not sure how much of a reassurance that would be.

Perhaps it was all a distraction – a Gust moment if you will. All of the Westminster media will be fixating on Cameron and not on Suella Braverman. How long will that last? A day or two at best and given the political skills shown by Sunak and his team he will probably squander the political restbite, afterall the Rwanda policy is about to reenter the political domain on Wednesday. If things go against the government then that is going to be clammer to revoke membership of the European Conventionon Human Rights (ECHR) from some of the loader members Sunak’s back benches. What does the new Foreign Secretary think about coming out of the ECHR?

Even if the Government wins the case at the Supreme Court the opposition will no doubt appeal to the European Court of Human Rights…more noise in the Mail and Telegraph…again Foreign Secretary what do you think? Perfect time for a Braverman opinion piece me thinks. And it is only Friday. Monday will seem such a long time ago.

That is before thinking about cabinet meetings where the former Prime Minister of over 5 years experience will sit opposite the current Prime Minister. Wonder what Cameron’s first intervention will be on? No one has as much experience as he has. He is the big beast amongst a crop of mostly Neophytes, and that includes the current Prime Minister.

So what is the question that Cameron is supposed to answer?