It was the last prime minister’s questions of the current parliament and the last before next week’s local elections. So it was no real surprise that this session was rather more bloodless than many encounters in recent weeks. Even the Tory frontbench was decidedly a C-list event. All the big cabinet names had wisely decided not to turn up.
This was an occasion for party leaders to go through the motions – to secure their greatest hits soundbites – before battle resumes again in a fortnight’s time. But even a relatively low-wattage Keir Starmer can comfortably get the better of Boris Johnson these days. The Convict has become little more than a self-parody. The Fool’s Fool.
