While Badenoch retreated to her PMQs script, the real opposition leader was at a Washington hearing on free speech

Mrs Badenoch urged Sir Keir Starmer to show 'backbone' and sack his deputy at the start of Prime Minister's Questions. But she used the rest of her questions on the economy.

Leader of the Opposition made a fleeting reference to Deputy PM’s tax evasion but failed to dig in – like everyone else at PMQs