The PM’s voice seemed to break gently as he read out the names and ages of a patrol in Afghanistan, all members of which were killed in one attack, over a decade ago. If it didn’t break, it softened, it betrayed a catch: “He was just a teenager.”
The House seemed to enjoy it, the emotional squalor of it, notwithstanding. “We will never forget their sacrifice,” the PM said, addressing backbenchers who barely remembered we’d been in Afghanistan.
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”
