Ten years ago, reviewing Alastair Campbell's diaries for the Spectator, I concluded as follows: "Who will be the chroniclers of the Cameron government?

Swire notes that they all ate, drank, partied – and holidayed in Cornwall – together, attended the same schools and university, sent their children to play together and texted one another’s private, rather than official, numbers to bypass civil servants (who are evidently not PLU - People Like Us). We have come a long way, thankfully, since the days of political wives being expected to stand mutely by their man. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Dip Into NEW PAPERBACKS [jsb_filter_by_tags count="15" show_more="10" sort_by="total_products"/] A selection of recent paperbacks.

But in Swire’s vignettes of Cameron’s chillaxed post-Downing Street life – telling his daughter he has a meeting, only to sit watching back-to-back episodes of Game of Thrones – and her perceptions of a very different, less privileged generation rising through the party lies another small piece of the jigsaw.

Diary of an MP's Wife is a searingly honest, wildly indiscreet and often uproarious account of what life is like in the thick of it.They were close enough to “Dave and Sam” to spend the day after the Brexit referendum getting sloshed with the defeated prime minister, while he raged about those he felt had wronged him.