It used to be said that Keir Starmer had a magic lamp, such was his fortune in opposition. If this genie did exist, it has long since crossed the floor. The U-turn on digital ID last night gave Kemi Badenoch yet another stick with which to beat Starmer at today’s session of PMQs. The Tory leader took full advantage of it with relish. ‘Can I start by saying that I welcome the Prime Minister’s U-turn?’, she began. ‘I feel like I say that every week’. Starmer’s response was to seek refuge in humour, deploying a series of gags to mixed effect. ‘They had more positions in 14 years than the Karma Sutra’, he guffawed. ‘No wonder they’re knackered – and they left the country screwed.’

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