Badenoch – and Starmer – should work on their PMQs jokes |
Kemi Badenoch and Keir Starmer conformed to time-honoured tradition today at Prime Minister’s Questions by producing lots of jokes that would be rejected by a cracker company in their exchanges. The Tory leader’s lines included that the government was full of turkeys, Starmer didn’t have the baubles to stand up to striking doctors, and all Labour MPs wanted for Christmas was a new leader.
Starmer had one decent joke
Starmer had one decent joke that someone else had written for him at the start. As he wished the whole House a happy Christmas, he had some ‘advice’ for Reform UK, which was that ‘if mysterious men from the East appear bearing gifts, this time report it to the police’. Later he suggested that what Sarah Pochin, the Reform MP who complained about overrepresentation of ethnic minorities in........