Sunak gets tetchy during Rwanda and Israel grilling

If Rishi Sunak still doesn’t recognise the description of himself as ‘tetchy’, then he could do worse than to watch back his performance before the liaison committee this afternoon.

The Prime Minister was not in a good mood when the questions started, though he did seem to relax a little as the 90-minute session wore on. The opening exchanges were testing – they covered the UK’s response to the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza – and Sunak was rather testy with some of his answers. Some of the later questions from a few of the Labour and SNP MPs on the committee weren’t very much to do with their briefs at all: Angus MacNeill strayed just a tad from his role as chair of the energy committee to ask why Scotland’s economy wasn’t like that of Ireland’s and whether independence could be the difference, while Liam Byrne, who chairs the business committee, asked Sunak whether he was kept awake at night worrying about inequality.