In pockets across Westminster, an air of stoic reflection has emerged. It is a routine well-rehearsed after a major shake-up of government; a time in which colleagues deliberate their successes, failures, and what might now await them on the backbenches.

It is not a feeling I can claim to have been exempt from after leaving the Department for Communities and Local Government in 2012. One of my biggest disappointments was the lack of progress we were able to make – for a variety of reasons – on compulsory purchase and compensation law.