When things go wrong, they often go really wrong, really quickly. So along comes Andrew Laming with his harassment of women, online, via photographs and in person. The result is yet another government MP on leave to get counselling – just what this government doesn’t need.

Yes, Laming is a permanent backbencher (since 2004!) rather than a minister. But apart from providing more terrible optics about Coalition culture when it comes to women, it also means the Prime Minister has to immediately contemplate the practical risks of leading a minority government to the next election.