Sir Keir Starmer’s sizeable parliamentary majority may have protected him from a difficult and protracted inquiry into whether he misled parliament, but it will come at a cost – both to him and the MPs who trotted through the ‘No’ lobby on his behalf.
It is true that the prime minister, as he has often had to do, has toughed it out and rallied the troops to back him up. And the opposition parties most notably Tory leader Kemi Badenoch were almost certainly trying a political stunt against him as he alleged.
