Wicketkeeper Matt Prior suffered his second successive failure of the tour in the next over when he was given out lbw to seamer Rajesh Verma, from a delivery which kept low.

BBC: England collapse to heavy defeat

Ms Toynbee, however, has focused on successive governments' failure to tackle inequality and pressed the notion of relative rather than absolute poverty which has grown, even under Labour.

BBC: Analysis

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham agreed, noting that the failure of successive politicians to deal with the issue had led to a "developing care crisis".

BBC: MP's warning on adult social care

Indigenous groups in the Pastaza River basin near the Ecuador border have been complaining for years about the pollution and the failure of successive governments to address it.

NPR: Peru Declares Amazon Oil Contamination Emergency

An even bigger obstacle is created by the failure of successive governments to spur economic growth and to shape an enterprise culture in which younger people can move easily and profitably between firms.

ECONOMIST: The government tries one more time, but it will be hard

Strachan stepped down in the wake of his failure to win a fourth successive Scottish Premier League title.

BBC: Strachan eyes McGhee as successor

Still, Hunt's journey through successive generations of new friends has its own pathos, since his chronic failure ever to get to grips with money tainted the very thing he stood for, namely, good fellowship.

ECONOMIST: Leigh Hunt

That run of reaching five successive major finals - and his time in charge of Sweden - was halted by failure to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and Lagerback tendered his resignation.

BBC: Lars Lagerback and Sven-Goran Eriksson in 2005