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PMQs: Starmer can never quite skewer Boris

(Photo by Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament)

Sir Keir Starmer got through the whole of PMQs without telling us that his mum was a nurse and he used to run the Crown Prosecution Service. What a relief. Instead, he gave us a different look-at-me moment. Hailing England’s victory over Germany last night he confided that his pleasure was of a purer and more refined variety than anyone else’s, ‘having been at Wembley for Euro 96 and experienced the agony of that defeat.’

The Labour leader is running out of disasters to berate the government with. The economy is on the mend. Freedom from lockdown looms. He can’t mention the Batley and Spen by-election in case he loses. The Hancock saga looks promising but the sex stud who ran the health ministry is already history. The fumble-bunnies have fled their love nest leaving nothing behind them but a soft-porn video of their pre-lunch groping sessions.

Sir Keir set out to expose Boris’s bungling of Matt Hancock’s departure.

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