Kemi Badenoch îl demontează pe Daniel Streeting cu vocea ei fumurie iar Keir Starmer râde

The Commons was full for the start of the King’s Speech debate. Mutinous Wes was on the government front bench, possibly one final time.What a gift to Mrs B. She noted that the Health Secretary had ‘been a bit distracted recently’.The House mooed its amusement but Wes gave Kemi some lip. ‘Why don’t you just do your job?’ continued Mrs B, hooking an eyebrow. ‘Do your job!’ She gave that last word a twist of the kebab skewer.Mr Streeting kept muttering back at her. Mrs Badenoch spotted this, slid her eyes to the right and filleted him. ‘There’s no point giving me dirty looks,’ she said. ‘We all know what he’s been up to!’There was something about the way she said it, making Mr Streeting’s furtive activities sound almost pornographic, that just made the House laugh. Even Sir Keir Starmer. The PM looked away, merriment brimming within him, until out it popped: A yelp of helpless mirth, and all at poor Wes’s cost.There had been a weird atmosphere at Westminster. The Commons felt becalmed, Labour MPs mute with despair that Sir Keir still hadn’t been bumped off. This death scene is being dragged out like something from a Wagner opera.State openings are always a touch unreal, what with the horse-drawn coaches, plume-helmeted soldiers in breastplates, flunkeys in heraldic tabards and Lord Alli in ermine. This time there was an extra layer of make-believe: We were being asked to ignore the nasal knight’s mortal wounds.Any new legislative programme was nuts if the Government was about to plop inwards like an under-baked soufflé. Yet on sailed the ship of state, oblivious to political reality. Mrs Badenoch began with deadly softness, remarking on ‘the most extraordinary backdrop’ to a State Opening at which no one had known whether there would actually be a PM in place Mutinous Wes was on the government front bench, possibly one final time. He kept muttering back at Mrs Badenoch, who slid her eyes to the right and filleted himJoin the discussionDid Kemi Badenoch outshine Keir Starmer at PMQs?What’s your view?Mrs Badenoch began with deadly softness, remarking on ‘the most extraordinary backdrop’ to a State Opening at which no one had known whether there would actually be a PM still in place. A Labour voice shouted: ‘It certainly isn’t you!’ The jibe flopped. Other government backbenchers were hypnotised by Mrs Badenoch. That smoky voice. The lilac dress. Their eyeballs whirlpooled. Their shoulders sagged.Politicians on the cusp of a big decision are usually perky. Mr Streeting looked dented, rueful, even recently tearful. He tried to chat to the Education Secretary, Bridget Phillipson, but scary Bridget curled her lips and spat back a couple of words before whipping out her mobile to start scrolling. A word much used by Roy Jenkins came to mind. Rancour.Read More LETTS: What the parade of non-entities demanding Sir Keir’s head says about our political class The King’s visit to America had been a wow. Mr