David Lammy’s last appearance at PMQs resembled a multi clown-car pile-up: both tragic and hilarious. Indeed, it was such a disaster that one wondered whether Lammy would ever be allowed near PMQs again. However, Sir Keir’s obvious contempt for being in the country even a second longer than he has to had got the better of him once more and, while he’s making sure that president Xi has the cleanest shoes of any despot, we were treated to another Lammy PMQs.

It was a pretty lame effort all round. Neither man really asked, nor answered questions

Opposite him was Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith, who unfortunately has the demeanour of a depressed mortgage broker. He also served in the Truss administration and so inevitably we got the same hoary nonsense from Lammy about how a government being bad in the past somehow means that a government now shouldn’t be criticised.

Wisely, Griffith asked about the economy. Next to Lammy sat Rachel Reeves, with her usual dead stare. She increasingly resembles a show corpse used by undertakers........

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