David Cameron is making great strides. No, he really is, you can watch them on video | Catherine Bennett

David Cameron is making great strides. No, he really is, you can watch them on video | Catherine Bennett

The foreign secretary’s actions are always ‘the right thing to do’. How marvellous!

Trotters up, or down? Even if you once admired Danny Dyer’s immortal summary of post-Brexit David Cameron – “He’s in Europe, in Nice, with his trotters up” – there’s a strong case for wishing he’d stayed that way.

When Cameron’s trotters were up, we were at least spared the surely more distressing spectacle of his trotters blithely ascending the moral high ground. When he was in Nice he wasn’t travelling the world and, with all the authority of a man who used to press the services of Lex Greensill on his former colleagues, educating it on his old speciality, “the right thing to do”.

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