PMQs: Starmer poses the question that ministers are asking in private

Today’s PMQs was more political than I had expected. But that is a good thing, challenge and accountability are the great strengths of the Westminster system and lead to better government.

Keir Starmer is never going to be an exciting parliamentary performer, but his questions were detailed and he followed up on Dominic Raab’s answer. He will be far more effective at scrutinising the government than Jeremy Corbyn was.

Starmer went on testing and the question of why half of the current capacity isn’t being used, a question that lots of people in government are asking too. Raab in his answers tried to make the issue not about the number of tests being carried out, but the overall testing capacity. But it is clear that if 100,000 tests aren’t being carried out every day by the end of the month – something that looks highly unlikely – the government is going to have its competence called into question.