Sky News reported on Wednesday that senior ministers were "beyond despair" that the chief whip was still in his job despite his row.
I mean that there are literally no words in the lexicon to cover the cocktail of chaotic misjudgement, rank cowardice and headless-chicken panic that has this week intoxicated the Prime Minister beyond his wits.
Even so, Cameron's position may have been weakened by the weeks of bitter infighting within the party, by his admission he does not want to stay on as prime minister beyond 2020 and by the resentment he has caused among the pro-Brexit camp for passionately campaigning to remain.
I explained to the saint that today's church too often fails to minister beyond its walls, that, in fact, many of the neighbors surrounding their edifice likely didn't even know they existed.
'The pension package of cabinet ministers is beyond the wildest dreams of most people,' said Oakeshott.
It might help if ministers looked beyond the world of banking, of which they still seem to be in a sort of post-socialist awe, for more of their recruits.
That was good politics — after all, Kennedy was speaking to Protestant ministers and, beyond them, to a majority Protestant country — but it is a questionable Catholicism, and one might say, with some justice, although with little verbal felicity, that he threw his faith under the bus.
"For someone to make that claim, particularly a senior minister, is beyond belief," he said.
He claimed some of the questioning of the DSD minister was beyond the inquiry's terms of reference.
Prime ministers should reach beyond Westminster for more of their hires.
