Deadbeat cabinet, infighting and a grovelling PM

It's all downhill from here At this stage in the electoral cycle at Westminster any new government, especially one with a 160-seat majority, should be at the peak of its powers.

- Dave Doogan MP FOR ANGUS AND PERTHSHIRE GLENS

One year in from a landslide election victory, Labour should be engaged in the breathtaking renewal and reform of a visibly dysfunctional system and doing so in a manner that lets the troublesome civil service know who is in charge now.

In the House of Commons, there should be procession of empowered bold and articulate ministers coming to the dispatch box primed with data and brimming with ideas and ambition.

In the domestic sphere and on the international stage, there should at this juncture be a drumbeat of achievements and successes striving to keep up with the hyperbolic rhetoric of a government at the peak of its powers.