DAVID Cameron has been forced to pack his bags and clear himself and his family out of No.10 after gambling and losing on the outcome of the EU referendum.

He leaves behind a rather feeble legacy and his plan to hand over power to close ally George Osborne is in tatters.

His replacement is an unelected prime minister who backed the losing side in the Brexit debate and must now lead the country out of the EU.

This should be a day therefore when the Tory party is under pressure to hold a General Election and feeling wary that unsettled scores within its ranks could blow up at any time.

But compared to the current state of Labour, the Government is ticking away nicely like a finely-tuned Swiss watch.

Shortly after the outgoing PM and Theresa May had stopped saying nice things about one another in Mr Cameron’s 215th and final Cabinet meeting, Labour’s NEC was embroiled in a behind-closed-doors meeting to decide the fate of their leader.

The bickering, bitterness and painfully slow negotiations that ensued at times sounded so farcical the writers of sitcoms Yes Prime Minister or The Thick of It would have deemed them too far-fetched to lampoon.

Before the session, Dennis Skinner likened rebel Labour MPs to “scab” miners, there were accusations of bullying by supporters of Jeremy Corbyn toward rival Angela Eagle, and counter claims that the Labour leader himself had received death threats.

It has been remarkable how the Conservatives over the last three days have rallied behind Mrs May to present an image – however fake and fragile that might be – of unity and harmony. On the surface they look like a credible party of government.

Labour now looks like a party riven by divisions that may never heal.