Boris was rattled at PMQs

Boris Johnson did not have a good Prime Minister’s Questions. It was never going to be a comfortable session, given the multiple rows about the funding of the Downing Street flat revamp and his reported comments about letting bodies ‘pile up’. But the way the Prime Minister approached it ensured both that the story will keep running and that he betrayed quite how annoyed he is by it.

It is little use trying, as Johnson repeatedly did, to argue that the British people are not interested in the line of questioning that Sir Keir Starmer was pursuing. For one thing, there is nothing like a politician claiming that something is ‘boring’ or a ‘non-story’ to make the media want to cover it all the more. For another, the way to make the flat row boring is to get all the information out there and get the story over and done with rather than allowing it to drag on.