Sir Keir Starmer used Prime Minister’s Questions today to show how hard it is going to be for Boris Johnson to move on from the Sue Gray report. The Labour leader acknowledged as he opened that there was going to be a statement on that inquiry right after this session, and so he was going to focus on the cost of living. It underlined that even if the Prime Minister manages to keep his backbenchers sufficiently calm to ‘survive’ the Gray report, that survival is not going to be followed by a swift recovery of his political fortunes.
Long-time critic of the Prime Minister William Wragg asked a zinger of a question
Starmer started by asking when the U-turn on a windfall tax on the profits of energy companies would come. The Prime Minister did not deny that there was going to be a change in policy. In his second question, Starmer made two jokes: the first was that ‘I’m told that hindsight is a wonderful thing’, which was a reference to Johnson’s ‘Captain Hindsight’ nickname for his opponent.
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