2. As Sunak finished his first and last year in office, there were rave reviews from his Tory colleagues: 3. “He’s increasingly weak” 4. “He exists in torpor” 5. “Clearly Rishi Sunak isn’t working as leader of our party”

6. Even the Speaker had to bollock Sunak, who has begun a discombobulating habit of asking HIMSELF questions during PMQs, and then bouncing on the spot as he answers, looking for all the world like his puppeteer is having an argument in Italian

I recall the way my would've-been-father-in-law's way of pronouncing "torpor". An incredibly intelligent man. Former helicopter pilot in Vietnam. Senior engineer at 3M. Yet he managed to make "torpor" into a four-syllable word!