Biggest vote turner at present? Small boats. That explains the rise of Nigel Farage's Reform. Yesterday Yvette Cooper arrived at the home affairs select committee for what was expected to be a showdown.
She was set to be interrogated about 'the work of the Home Office'. MPs were bound to go big on the small boats crisis. Weren't they?
Not this lot. It was an hour and a half before the matter was raised and it received just ten minutes. Questions during that low-energy period were reserved for Starmerites. Owing to the result of the General Election, select committees are heavily dominated by Labour.
The MP given most of the questions was Chris Murray (Lab, Edinburgh East & Musselburgh).
In addition to being as damp as a frogman's jockstrap he happens to be the son of Margaret Curran, a sometime Labour MP who is now minister for Net Zero in the House of Lords.
