Kemi Badenoch scored a direct hit on Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday. In asking him if he could rule out raising income tax, VAT or national insurance she stitched him up like a kipper.

She knew (we all knew) that he would decline the opportunity and the Tory leader knew that when she last asked him the exact same question in the summer he had replied, “yes.” We didn’t need Badenoch to follow up with “so what’s changed?” – we (well, those of us who break away from our day to watch parliamentary exchanges) were shouting it at our screens.

The opposition leader generously offered the PM........

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