Sunak and Starmer talked past each other, with the PM receiving roars of support which it was very hard to trace to their source.
“He’ll always be Mr Nobody!” Sir Keir Starmer declared of Rishi Sunak. How odd to find the Labour leader mocking the Prime Minister for being a man of the people.
The MP for Harborough this week took a step towards fame when The Times picked up his attack on the Prime Minister’s failure to stop record migration.
This history of the Labour Party brings out its religious origins, and its role in filling the gap left by the decline of the churches.
The Prime Minister looked pained, as well he might, by the many impossible questions put to him by the Liaison Committee.
The Prime Minister gives frequent, unobtrusive reminders that as a man of government he is highly impressive.
And Tomlinson, Minister since last Thursday for Illegal Migration, demonstrates fighting spirit by seeing off Cooper.
There were gleams of hope for the Government in the conciliatory tone of the first Conservative contributors to the debate.
It’s tough at the top: there are white hairs on the PM’s temples which were not there when he took over in October last year.
This obscure but vital body enables Tory MPs to wield decisive power.
Thousands of grief-stricken relatives reckon he is guilty as hell, and want him sent to the scaffold.
The former Prime Minister, chastened at the start, began to explain to the lawyers how politics actually works.
But Starmer, her new admirer, wore the complacent expression of a man who is 20 points ahead in the polls.