The evidence is there – David Cameron is just as responsible for this Brexit mess as Cummings

Editorial: The vote for Leave was won through ruthlessness, yes, but the former prime minister’s miscalculations certainly helped to put us in the mess that he’s now condemning

Well, someone had to say it. Someone, who was once close and friendly towards Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, that is. Someone who knew them as well as most, and could judge their character at close quarters.

And so David Cameron has at last delivered his devastating verdict on the leaders of the Leave campaign. It was not just that Mr Gove and Mr Johnson “behaved appallingly”, betrayed friendships and attacked the policies of the government they served in. It was that they betrayed their country, no less, and “left the truth at home” during the 2016 referendum campaign.

Indeed, in Mr Johnson’s case he even managed to betray his own record when mayor of London as a pro-European who knew the continued success of the City and Canary Wharf, as well as the capital’s public services and much else, depended vitally on EU membership. Mr Gove, a longer-standing and more sincere Eurosceptic has more of an excuse for his behaviour, but not for the fictitious claims, such as that “Turkey is joining the EU”. (It still hasn’t).