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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Memory loss strikes down Starmer and Badenoch at an infuriating PMQs

Kemi Badenoch speaking at PMQs.
Struck down, it seems, Kemi Badenoch is condemned to live in a permanent present. Photograph: House of Commons/Reuters

There’s something weird going on in Westminster. A mutant pathogen in the water maybe. Whatever it is, Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch appear to have been struck down by it.

Both have had parts of their memory wiped. At times they now sound like the living dead. Keir can’t remember a thing about Peter Mandelson. And Kemi is a total blank when it comes to the Iran war. It’s hard to know which is worse. Keir at least has only forgotten what happened a year ago, so he can more or less have a half-life in the real world. Meanwhile, Kemi has no idea what happened last week. Or even yesterday. She is condemned to live in a permanent present.

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