Today Nicky Morgan was forced to sit in the public gallery for her own department’s questions

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. If you inadvertently met Nicky Morgan’s gaze at one of those Thai silent meditation retreats you might imagine she was trying to inform you you were about to be stung by a wasp. Morgan – or Baroness Morgan of Cotes, to give her the full title she acquired two days ago, during her swearing-in ceremony in the House of Lords – stood down at the general election, saying she would “never serve in a Boris Johnson government”. Because you only need one look at Nicky “I will never serve in a Boris Johnson government” Morgan serving in a Boris Johnson government and there’s a fair chance you too will live out the rest of your days looking as permanently stunned. Pundits like me like to despair at the likes of Amber Rudd for quitting and so letting the wrong’uns have their way, and despair in equal measure at the likes of Nicky Morgan and Matt Hancock for carrying on, even though they serve a government almost diametrically opposed to what they believe in.