PMQs: Sunak struggles to defend David Cameron

The House of Lords is like a bag of doughnuts in the lap of a traffic policeman. There’s always room for one more. The newest peer, David Cameron, was the subject of much amused scorn at PMQs. Rishi Sunak wasn’t prepared for an obvious query about his new Foreign Secretary: what is Dave’s greatest feat on the international stage? Kevin Brennan, of Labour, put this question, and he asked Rishi to name a specific achievement.

‘Many, many,’ said Rishi, floundering in shallow waters. In search of a highlight from Dave’s CV, he said that he ‘hosted one of the most successful G8 summits of recent times.’ Rishi didn’t enlarge. Several MPs brought up Dave’s career as a lobbyist for a group with connections to the Chinese Communist Party but Rishi swatted them aside with a dead-safe platitude. ‘Unrivalled experience,’ he cried more than once. Dave has ‘unrivalled experience to help Britain navigate an uncertain word in challenging times.’