Boring. That was the universal response to Wednesday’s first prime minister’s questions of the new parliament. Where was the screaming, yelling, insulting and air punching? This is supposed to be Strictly Come Politicking. Get off stage, the two of you. Zero points.
The Telegraph condemned the new PMQs as a “love-in”. The prime minister was like a teenager “breaking the news he had lost his virginity”, according to one headline. For an Independent columnist it was intolerably tame, just “good-natured joshing”. The Times’s sketch writer concluded that the new horses “will need time to learn to bray”, noting that it was so dull some MPs walked out before the curtain.
