Sir Keir’s approach to PMQs is so brilliant it might be rather foolish. He shows up each Wednesday as if he were attending a particularly complicated fraud trial, full of unique and intriguing features, which will one day furnish material for a lecture at Inner Temple. It’s super-technical. It makes your brain itch. And anyone can see why the Labour leader enjoys this fact-based approach — his head actually looks like a filing cabinet.
The last seven months have created a huge archive of evidence, statistics and scientific statements which Sir Keir seems to have learned by rote.
Today he started with a history lesson. He took us back to early May when the Prime Minister said something. Then he skipped to mid-September when Sage said something else. These statements looked inconsistent.
‘Why has he abandoned the science and rejected that advice?’ asked Sir Keir.
If Sir Keir considers himself Boris’s moral superior he should keep it quiet.
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