In a move likely to massively increase his book sales, a group of academics have ranked Gordon only the third worst post-war Prime Minister. Gordon’s allies often say history will judge him more kindly than his modern critics, though it’s not looking good if the one hundred historians polled here are anything to go by.

Eden and Douglas-Home were the two deemed more catastrophic failures than the Prime Mentalist – Suez and Profumo still playing strong with the historians. Though Gordon should take note, all is not lost, Douglas-Home spent another six years active in politics after his resignation and even served in Heath’s cabinet. He actually turned up to Westminster though…