It is the kind of analysis that produced this broadside in the Spectator Australia from James Patterson, who said the Canberra pressgallery had badly underestimated the Liberal leader.
And my over-riding memory from that time is how, night after night, we would stand in the pressgallery at 10pm watching to see how Eurosceptic Tory MPs would try to defeat their government again.
It actually brought at tear to my eye as I was watching from the pressgallery and saw many - this one daughter of a member holding a Bible for the member to be sworn in on.