Why I still watch PMQs |
Is Prime Minister’s Questions past it? We frequently ask this question in Westminster when the Wednesday lunchtime ding-dong between the two party leaders has ended up being particularly low-rent – and it has definitely fallen into that category over the past few months. Today, Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch return for their first post-Easter session, and even if this one goes unusually well, it’s likely we’ll be having the same existential crisis about what the point of PMQs is again.
In the 15 years that I’ve been covering politics, I’ve definitely sat through worse periods of PMQs than the one we are........