David Cameron’s last day was a lark bordering on hysteria.

He looked the happiest he’s been for years, seemingly glad to be out of the job.

Smiles and cheers and terrible jokes abounded.

Larry the Downing Street cat got in on the act with online wags suggesting that for a brief moment in between Cameron and May he was holding the fort.

But behind the back slaps and the jocularity a terrible truth will be taken away with the furniture.

David Cameron will be remembered as a failure. Not since Suez has a Prime Minister taken such a reckless gamble with the country’s future and lost.

Across from him on the floor of the House was a Labour Party in virtual ruins but more importantly outside the bubble was a country deeply divided and facing, whatever the blowhards insist, is a precarious economic future.

The faultlines in British society were always there. We see that with the rise of the far left and right in politics in our towns and cities. The divide between the Haves and the Have Nots has grown and with it resentment. We knew that.

But by risking everything, allowing everyone to register a protest, on a simple tick in a box on Europe was folly of the highest order.

It is not the first time his bad judgement let him down but it was the most corrosive.

Like Tony Blair and Iraq before him David Cameron will be remembered for one thing and one thing only. It will rightly not be a kind judgement.