If you wanted an illustration of the different emotional states of the two main parties, you could do a lot worse than to watch the humble address speeches just given by two Tory backbenchers in the Commons following the Queen’s Speech. While Tracey Crouch and Eddie Hughes cracked jokes and had their colleagues in stitches as if at a pantomime, the Labour benches looked as though they were about to go to a funeral. Many Labour MPs who managed to win their seats again are still in a state of numb, angry grief about the friends they lost and about what has happened to their party. The thought of laughing is just too much.
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Some Labourites found Crouch’s speech in particular very funny, and they were mostly the backbench MPs who have been working cross-party on various things and whose friendship Crouch praised, before saying she missed those who had lost their seats.
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