Kemi Badenoch has been widely criticised after failing to devote enough of her PMQs questions to Rayner’s bombshell statement admitting she underpaid stamp duty. Not the first time Kemi’s PMQs nous has become the story…
Badenoch asked Starmer about Rayner and bond markets in the same question, allowing the PM to give Rayner his support and move on. The Tory leader then said Starmer should sack Rayner and moved on herself. Hardly a drill-down…
Some Tories are in disbelief. Party grandee David Frost has been retweeting criticism of Badenoch’s performance in the Chamber as “totally unacceptable.” Goal missed there considering the Tories’ close involvement in the story as it developed…