When will Starmer and Sunak get with the times at PMQs?

‘Another week with no ideas. Absolutely no ideas for this country and absolutely no plans.’ Either Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer could have hurled that insult across the chamber at Prime Minister’s Questions this week – or indeed any week. Once again, both leaders were arguing over who didn’t have a plan, with a few contemporaneous references thrown in here and there so that viewers tuning in could be confident they weren’t watching a re-run.

Starmer made an early reference to the latest unrest in the Conservative party – unrest that’s currently almost more ludicrous than the overall situation, given Simon Clarke remains the only MP marching up the hill to replace Sunak.

The Labour leader joked: ‘The more they slag him off behind his back, the louder they cheer in here.’ Tory MPs were cheering, but it was probably reasonably sincere this time as Clarke’s Daily Telegraph article has so far served to remind most of them how ridiculous a party heading into an election looks if it is discussing replacing its leader again.