This after Oliver Dowden accused Labour and the Liberal Democrats of collaborating in the local elections.
Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor, sat nodding and smiling beside her Leader, while perhaps contemplating how she could have given the PM a harder time.
And: surely Johnson wants to know who authorised the Nowzad instruction. Plus: go on – make it all about Brexit.
“It’s the second by-election victory for the Conservatives in a year. That’s not happened since 1993.”
Outside Westminster Hall, a baffled group of tourists noticed Oliver Cromwell giving a nod of approval.
The Liberal Democrat leader is pressed by Marr on his party’s commitment to free speech on this issue, and tries to evade the issue.
Lib Dem leader says Conservatives “have taken people for granted” who feel Johnson is “not in tune with traditional Tory values”.
The leader is encouraged by where the party made gains in the UK.
The miscarriage of justice was technically caused by technology – but actually came down to human greed and arrogance.
The unenviable role of humourless teacher trying to discipline an impudent schoolboy was played by the Leader of the Opposition.
The party leader takes refuge in the claim that this campaigning furthers community outreach during Covid.
“Some of them have had to sign contracts for accommodation – so it’s quite a complicated issue, and I don’t see the Government talking about it at all.”
“The issue is can we have good relations with our European neighbours…I want to be as close to them as possible.”
Those caught carrying acid to be imprisoned on the first offence, not the second. Yet the Lib Dems want to weaken the penalties.
Until they are prepared to set out a future that is both workable and distinct, they are unlikely to have much of a voice in this Parliament or the next.