'Almost 50,000 asylum seekers have landed in Britain, an increase of 48% on the same time last year'

The broad consensus was the nation needed a complete change of tack.

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Little did we realise the ship we were climbing aboard was heading for the rocks.

The list of almost exclusively unforced errors seems endless.

It ranges from the relatively minor, such as free football and concert tickets, dodgy CVs, free use of apartments and an inability to know where a multi-billion pound river crossing began and ended, to appalling policy mishaps and screeching U-turns that gave the nation a severe case of whiplash more than once.

Indeed, it was another picture that summed that up last week, when the Prime Minister stumbled on the steps of Number 10 on his way to PMQs a misstep that spoke volumes about his stewardship of the nation.