I couldn’t help wondering whether, in the wake of Brexit, Prime Minister David Cameron, will go down in history as the second failed UK prime minister in living memory, following the late Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon), who incidentally spent some time convalescing in Malta in 1956, following the humiliating debacle in the Suez Crisis.

I am saying this because it seems to me that both Eden and Cameron cherished imperial delusions of grandeur. When President Dwight Eisenhower got to know of the English/French Suez invasion that was kept under wraps, he phoned Eden with the words: “Anthony, are you mad?”, redolent of Malvolio’s bombastic comment in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

Martin Scicluna was right in that Cameron was ‘blackmailed’ by a hostile short-sighted irresponsible Eurosceptic Tory  group, mostly  backbenchers. What escapes me is, how two former Tory leaders, like William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith, were pro-exit. But, again, here we have two other examples of failed party leaders.

Cameron may be held responsible in the end for his folly in ironically contributing to the break-up of the UK following his rather fortuitous success in  the previous referendum on Scotland’s home rule.