Prime Minister Osbourne in 2018

A bit of fun over at the Spectator where Hugo Rifkind winds the clock forward 10 years.It's 2018 and George Osbourne's government is in trouble

So it was 2018 and the government was in trouble. Real trouble. In newspapers and magazines, on Dame Emily Maitlis’s Newsnight and Davina McCall’s Today programme, one question was being asked. Would anybody ever vote Conservative again?
At this stage, by-election disasters were not unexpected. The loss of Crewe and Nantwich had been on the cards for years and Enfield, although symbolic, was hardly a surprise. Fulham had been a shock. Henley all the more so.

And a sneak look back at the past years

The Johnson resignations, the defection of David Davis to Ukip, the questions raised, perhaps unfairly, over the way that Caroline Spelman was able to buy that house.

and

Out of nowhere, the government was suddenly split over the inconsequential issue of whether Britain should one day join the rouble. There were still failing schools, there were still failing hospitals.