Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions was predictably ugly, with Boris Johnson in a visibly bad mood and unable to contain himself as he tried to defend his leadership against a full-throttle assault from Sir Keir Starmer.
Tory MPs fear the goodwill he has enjoyed over the vaccine programme is fading
Starmer for his part saw last night’s huge Tory rebellion as the signal to drop his previous caution. Today he branded Johnson the ‘worst possible Prime Minister at the worst possible time’, said Tory MPs were right not to trust their leader, and that he was ‘socially distanced from the truth’. He continued: ‘We can’t go on with a prime minister who is too weak to lead,’ adding, ‘So will the Prime Minister take time this Christmas to look in the mirror and ask himself whether he has the trust and authority to lead this country?’
Johnson was struggling, in part because it seemed clear that a large number of Tory MPs agreed with this analysis too.
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