Maybe it was the warm weather, but MPs on both sides of the chamber were louder, rowdier and more excited than usual at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions (15 June). Boris Johnson certainly looked red-faced as he rose to the despatch box, barely audible among the cries from his backbenchers.
The heat was getting to Keir Starmer too. At recent PMQs, the Labour leader has flirted with a sense of humour. But any hesitancy about the need for gags has been totally jettisoned since his shadow cabinet anonymously briefed this week that their leader was “boring voters to death”. Gone was “lawyerly”, “forensic” Starmer, in came Starmer who compares the Prime Minister to Jabba the Hutt from Star Wars and claims he was giving the public “the ick”. To add to the theatrics, at one point Starmer threw his arms open to the benches opposite and boldly read out disparaging quotes about their leader, calling on them to own up.
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