While Badenoch retreated to her PMQs script, the real opposition leader was at a Washington hearing on free speech
Y
ou could argue that prime minister’s questions is no longer fit for purpose. Indeed, that it never really has been. Just a theatre showcase for some performance politics where few answers are ever extracted from the prime minister.
To which you might now add that the Tories are not the real opposition. So Kemi Badenoch is essentially an impostor. Sometime over the summer the mantle of official opposition passed to Reform UK. So it really should be Nigel Farage, not Kemi, asking the questions.
No one is particularly interested in anything the Tories and Badenoch have to say. Certainly not Labour. All their attention is focused on fighting Farage now that Reform are 15 points ahead in the polls.
