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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Starmer fails to electrify Commons after bum notes from prime minister unplugged

Boris Johnson gestures towards Keir Starmer at PMQs on Wednesday.
Boris Johnson gestures towards Keir Starmer at PMQs on Wednesday. Photograph: Jessica Taylor/AFP/Getty Images

It was all set up for a crushing Labour triumph. A Starmer drama. The first prime minister’s questions since Boris Johnson had been left badly wounded after 148 of his own MPs had gone against him in a confidence vote.

A time of extreme weakness when The Convict’s tenuous grip on his party could be brutally exposed. And you could sense the occasion had got to Johnson.

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