PMQs thundered back to life today. Boris was clearly thrilled to be there. Sir Keir seemed to be up to his eyeballs in self-doubt.
Evidently the Labour leader preferred the old pandemic days when the chamber was like a coroner’s court or a half-empty library at Lambeth Palace. The atmosphere back then was calm, studious and considered. This afternoon the playground riot was in full swing. It opened with a Boris special. He was asked by Craig MacKinlay if the next generation could seriously rely on cars powered by Duracell batteries and by houses heated with warm zephyrs that rise by magic through air-vents in the floor.
Boris crushed this cynical view and he urged MacKinlay to ‘embrace the Promethean spirit of technological optimism.’
The SNP’s Ian Blackford rose to speak. His questions, and his entire being, seem to be saturated in the direst enmity
The chamber howled with laughter at that. But Sir Lindsay Hoyle seemed to misjudge the mood.
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