The House of Commons these days is hardly an inspiring place. There can be little denying that it is a shadow of the debating arena it was in the days of Gladstone and Disraeli. It’s not even what it was from the days of Cameron and Corbyn.

Sir Keir replied that there was no evidence of two-tier policing, which in this day and age is increasingly like adamantly maintaining that the sky isn’t blue

Sir Keir replied that there was no evidence of two-tier policing, which in this day and age is increasingly like adamantly maintaining that the sky isn’t blue

But on days like today, when the news is filled with the appalling reality of the policies cooked up there, it appears even more contemptible and trivial than usual. The banality of evil has never been so banal.

The session started with an exchange between Mrs Badenoch and Sir Keir about welfare spending. In light of the admission by Burke and/or Hare impersonator, Pat McFadden, that most backbench MPs are vindictive halfwits who think their job is to screw working people out of as much money as possible, the Leader of the Opposition tried to ask Sir Keir about welfare spending and whether he had any plan at all to keep it under control.

What she got in return was the........

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