The Farage Flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t
Nigel Farage had arrived early for Prime Minister’s Questions. Some trick of the schedule meant he was going to get to speak for the second week running. Can the nation afford this? If he was charging his usual rate, that will have blown Rachel Reeves’s fiscal headroom right out of the water.
As Reform’s fortunes have risen, the party has become the increasing focus of PMQs. Keir Starmer replied to a soft question from a Labour MP with a list of the party’s failings. Apparently in Staffordshire they’ve had three changes of leadership in 11 months. Robert Jenrick sat stony-faced. In Westminster, he’d settle for just one.