FROM LONDON

IT IF WAS JUST A PLOY to cover up his sacking of his rogue Home Secretary, then Rishi Sunak’s appointment of former Prime Minister David Cameron as Foreign Secretary worked a treat. If it’s a serious move to shore up his wretched administration, then the recruitment of the man who called the 2016 Brexit Referendum, lost it and ran away the next day is sure sign that the British Government is in a genuine tailspin.

David Cameron, who was not even a Member of Parliament until yesterday, was instantly elevated to the House of Lords to smooth the way for his return to high office. What a boon it is to have chums with such power.

The Old Etonian, Oxford University Bullingdon Club alumni, and all-round posh boy has been more focused on business than politics these past seven years, using his acquired skills to assist the various projects to which he has permitted his name to be attached.

The curiously-named James Cleverly, who is being replaced by Cameron, is going over to the UK Home Office, himself replacing Suella Braverman, who, while sympathetic to the British Empire, is, unfortunately for her, not a posh boy.