Sir Keir Starmer had two lines of attack at Prime Minister’s Questions, both of them strong in their own way. The problem was that it wasn’t entirely clear what held them together and by splitting his six questions between them, he weakened the force of both.
Starmer has been building a case for a while that Boris Johnson is playing the electorate for fools
Starmer started by asking Boris Johnson about the Mirror front page, which claims the Prime Minister and his aides broke lockdown restrictions last year by holding a party in Downing Street. Johnson brushed off the allegations by arguing that people were more interested in what happens now rather than 12 months ago – though significantly he didn’t deny that there had been a party. Starmer’s theme here was that the Conservatives don’t really believe in the rules they force on other people, and he pointed at the semi-masked Tory benches behind the Prime Minister to underline this.
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