Digested week: Another PM bites the dust and it’s surprisingly moving

Keir dashed out moments after the lectern was in place. Almost as if he wanted to get the speech over and done with with as few people watching as possible. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press/Shutterstock

Monday

Hard to believe, but in my 12 and a half years as the Guardian’s political sketch writer, I am about to embark on my seventh prime minister. There was a time when we Britons took the piss out of the Italians for their rapid turnover of prime ministers. Now the laugh is on us.