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The truth is that the Prime Minister looks more out of his depth with every day that passes.

He never seems to have considered the potentially serious consequences of his relationships with senior executives of News Corp, two of whom now face criminal prosecutions.

One, charged this week with perjury, is his former director of communications, Andy Coulson.

Of course the former editor of the News of the World is innocent until proved guilty: but his appointment by Mr Cameron when the Tories were still in opposition was controversial because he had left his job as editor of the Sunday red-top after its royal reporter was jailed for phone-hacking.

Mr Coulson’s arrest and subsequent charge have raised questions about Mr Cameron’s judgment.

It is known that Tory colleagues advised him against the choice in 2007, and again in 2010 when appointing Mr Coulson to an official government post after the Coalition was formed.

In a whole range of areas — not just the Budget, or ministers’ relations with the Murdoch empire, but in wider issues of economic management and the ability to sense the public mood — the question returns time and again to the quality of ministers’ judgments.

There is a callowness and lack of experience on the part of many in the Government. Gone are the days when MPs would serve a long spell on the back benches and then in junior posts before being chosen to join the Cabinet.

Mr Hunt, for example, became a Cabinet minister just five years after being first elected as an MP.

When Steve Hilton, Mr Cameron’s former chief policy adviser, left Downing Street a few weeks ago, his friends said that he was becoming frustrated by his boss’s refusal to take advice. He is not alone in that view. Many in the Tory Party consider Mr Cameron’s circle of advisers to be worryingly out of touch.

By nature, Mr Cameron is someone who has a profound aversion to anyone who disagrees with him — and an even greater aversion to those who have the intelligence, articulacy and courage of their convictions to challenge him.

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