Séamas O'Reilly: It's hard not to feel that Britain is a deeply unserious country

"Nowhere is this more pronounced than in the figure of Rishi Sunak, a vaguely plausible hologram of a politician, an AI who’s been fed too few commands to pass the Turing Test."

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a meeting of the new-look Cabinet following a reshuffle on Monday, at 10 Downing Street, London. Pic: Kin Cheung/PA Wire

How does one explain a week like this in British politics? We should start and end, I suppose, with Suella Braverman, whose career as Home Secretary was ended for the second time in 13 months. 

In any other political era, this would be remarkable but this latest reshuffle named the Tories’ eighth home secretary in as many years, its sixth education secretary in four years and its fourth health secretary in two years, enacted by the third Prime Minister Britain has seen in the last 15 months.