It’s Thursday so you know what that means: another chance to watch Penny Mordaunt demolishing the SNP from the despatch box. Today’s Business Questions to the Leader of the House saw Mordaunt face off across sometime soap star and full-time grievance-monger Deidre Brock. The Scottish nationalist gave a rather tedious speech lambasting Jeremy Hunt’s Budget, prompting the Commons leader to issue a magisterial response.
Mordaunt proceeded to list Hunt’s measures for Scotland before turning the tables and opening fire on the SNP’s record in government and the ongoing shambles of its leadership contest. She lambasted the party’s ‘three stooges’, joking that if ‘the candidates were called Moe, Larry and Curly it couldn’t get any more slapstick’ before concluding with the killer line: ‘I’m afraid we’ve got two more weeks of this, but we already know the outcome. Whoever wins, Scotland will lose.’
In for a Penny, in for a pounding…
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