The drama, which has been dragging a little after the opening episodes, picked up the pace today with character development in both the PM and the leader of the opposition – thanks perhaps to a guest appearance from the disruptive anti-hero, Nigel ‘The Fox’ Farage. He got one of his rare PMQs, but his presence – especially on this, the eve of the local elections – was felt from the start.
By way of prologue, Dan Tomlinson told us that senior Tories were plotting “a deal, a pact, or a merger” of Reform and the Conservatives, and, in his partisan non-sequitur, that the only answer was to vote Labour. The PM, getting to his feet was put back in his place by the Speaker saying, “You’ve no responsibility for any of that.”
