IN 2016 I viewed David Cameron as a worse PM than Lord North, who’d lost the American colonies. Mr Cameron had offered us the Brexit referendum, but when he lost, walked away from the problems he’d created.

Now, just four years later, Boris Johnson has wrested the title from him. He’s packed so many headline grabbing incompetences into a single year: illegally proroguing Parliament; accepting a customs border in the Irish Sea to get his “oven ready” Brexit deal; leaving the Covid lockdown so late that we have more excess deaths than there were civilian casualties in six years of the Second World War; leaving vital front-line staff short of PPE; shipping Covid patients into care homes without testing; creating a failing privatised, centralised test and trace system; a farcical exam results system and a whole series of screeching U-turns.

His performance is so abysmal that even the right-wing press is abandoning him. The Spectator, once edited by him, has a cover showing a tiny figure in a tiny boat with the headline “Where’s Boris?”

Mr Johnson’s sidekick Dominic Cummings showed contempt for the terms of the March lockdown and did untold damage to public trust. They both must go.

Phil Hunt, Barningham.