This is the career of a Tory Cabinet member these days: each successive post is occupied for exponentially shorter time until they’re booted to the back benches.

James Cleverly has hardly had time to let his posterior warm the chair in the Home Secretary’s office, and people are clamouring for it to get a good kicking.

And it’s his own fault for making a stupid attempt at humour about using the Class C date-rape drug Rohypnol to keep his wife faithful.

Comments like the following are justified and, in the opinion of many, accurate:

And of course, people who have suffered from having their drinks (or whatever) spiked with Rohypnol or similar chemicals have had something to say about him:

[Gina Miller, who heads the True and Fair Party,] who said she had been a victim of the drug during an abusive relationship more than a decade ago, said: “This ruins a woman’s life, or a young girl’s life, when this happens to you. It’s not something you wake up and you get over. It literally ruins your life.

“You can’t escape it. It is like this ghost on your shoulder that lives with you forever… and then you see somebody in a position of power, not just a teacher or headmaster, this was a Home Secretary here we’re talking about, somebody in a position of power, playing it down as a joke.”

Describing the impact of drugging, Ms Miller, 58, said: “You have no memory, you have memory loss. You have the pain and you know something happened, but you are in no way in control of telling anybody because you can’t remember.

“So it absolutely robs you of everything – your memory, your ability to speak out, your ability to complain, your inability to go to the police. You’re robbed of everything. You feel as though you’re drowning because you instinctively know something that happened, that you have absolutely no recollection of it.”

Anti-Brexit campaigner Ms Miller added: “As a survivor, and as a woman, I have no confidence. I don’t see how any woman in the UK can have confidence in him as a Home Secretary representing them and looking after their safety.”

So it’s looking bad for Mr Stupidly.

Still, we can have fun with it.

Make your predictions, folks! When do you think Rishi Sunak will sack this man? Or will they both try to weather this storm?

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