PMQ's

[Johnnyboxer]

Looks like Starmer, ambushed Boris very well

Rapier questioning, worth a 2 minute watch

Bombastic Boris meets his match in forensic Starmer at PMQs | John Crace

The PM gets the first taste of a dogged cross-examination so clinical he can’t hide behind his characteristic bluster

www.theguardian.com

 

[capfits]

The Boris bluster may well work with the braying Pollyanna's, but it will not wash in the much thinner and lower numbers Covid parliamentary floor.
The same is true for Starmer, it suits him at the moment, but he will have to produce better sound bite material when normality returns in the future.
Early days but with the sh!t storm of impending unemployment Starmer will have a few open goals, but he will need them with 4 and half years to go until an election, possibly without Johnson at the helm.

 

[Johnnyboxer]

Starmer will keep Boris to account

 

[Muck Spreader]

Starmer will keep Boris to account

News hack v barrister. This could well result in some interesting battles and debates over the coming years, if Boris can keep his mind (man bits) on the job that long.

 

[ollie989898]

I just hope that the form a credible opposition and instead of veiled insults they get on and have grown up dialogue. I was pleased to see Corbyn wanted grown up politics but it soon came back to rants and tit for tat. I don't pay these overblown fudgeers to stand there and play silly beggars.

 

[Johnnyboxer]

News hack v barrister. This could well result in some interesting battles and debates over the coming years, if Boris can keep his mind (man bits) on the job that long.

Better than that Starmer is a QC

 

[holywell farmer]

Better than that Starmer is a QC

Being an excellent qc isn't an instant qualification to be a prime minster, starmer has only got elected as an mp in 2015' let's see what he is like after a year as labour leader

 

[Brisel]

I hope he does keep Boris on his toes. We need a credible opposition to maintain the government's behaviour & that was lacking under JC's leadership.

As above, Stamer has low hanging fruit to pluck but if he wants to win the next election he will have to do more than snipe at the Tories, always easiest from the Opposition benches where you don't have to come up with solutions, only questions.

 

[Steevo]

I hope he does keep Boris on his toes. We need a credible opposition to maintain the government's behaviour & that was lacking under JC's leadership.

As above, Stamer has low hanging fruit to pluck but if he wants to win the next election he will have to do more than snipe at the Tories, always easiest from the Opposition benches where you don't have to come up with solutions, only questions.

Nicely put!!

He’s very quick to push for the “next stage” before it is ready, and then uses any answer given (and demanded!) to trip them up later.

So many things on the coronavirus front that I bet the government hasn’t mentioned! Turkey PPE and 100k tests being perfect examples of defences that turned out to shoot themselves in the foot.