Kemi Badenoch was on savage form at Prime Minister’s Questions. The leader of the opposition has generally improved her performance in this session, but she has always been particularly good at verbally kicking politicians when they are down. Today, she came out with some brutal lines, including that Labour MPs were saying they were being called ‘the paedo defenders party’ and that Starmer had ‘411 MPs and not a single one of them has any imagination’. Starmer by contrast was still waffling on about ‘the party of Liz Truss’ and complaining that she was ‘carping from the sidelines’.

Badenoch was vicious when Starmer tried his regular joke about Conservatives defecting to Reform

Badenoch was vicious when Starmer tried his regular joke about Conservatives defecting to Reform

Badenoch’s tail was up this lunchtime because she felt she had been leading the debate on student loans. Describing them as a ‘debt trap’, she said........

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