With Rishi and Keir giving thanks for ‘our’ NHS, that meant it was time for the deputies to come out to play. So at PMQs it was Oliver Dowden tasked with facing Labour’s Angela Rayner on renting reform. But the real highlight of the session came from the SNP’s Mhairi Black, who announced yesterday that she was standing down at the next election.
After Oliver Dowden spoke warmly of Black, a fellow member of the 2015 intake of MPs, the SNP deputy leader retorted: ‘We did join this place at the same time — I’m pretty sure we’ll be leaving at the same time.’ The whole House enjoyed a joke at Dowden’s expense, given the gains that the Lib Dems made in his Hertsmere seat barely two months ago.
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