Welcome to the old days. Not so different from the new days. Even though prime minister’s questions by and large took a break from partygate and retreated to the more familiar ground of the economy, the song was still pretty much the same.
There were confected cheers from a handful of Tory MPs desperate to sound like several dozen, all of whom will happily stab Boris Johnson in the back whenever they think his time is up. And with Tobias Ellwood, Anthony Mangnall and Gary Streeter having submitted letters to of no confidence to the 1922 Committee on Wednesday, that time is getting ever nearer.
