Mike Tyson famously once said that, 'everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth’ — Dominic Raab and his team may well be mulling over that quote after a bruising six rounds with Angela Rayner.
With Boris Johnson in the Middle East, Rayner relished the chance to go toe to toe with the deputy prime minister — who is not a natural despatch box performer. The Ashton-under-Lyne MP came out the red corner swinging, with questions over Tory links to Russian oligarch donors and the handling of the energy crisis.
Raab, flanked by men in grey suits, gave a wooden defence of the government's position, telling the Commons that all rules had been followed when it came to peerages dished out to Russian donors.
