Boris did rather well considering. Corbyn, however, really didn’t sound like his heart was in it and decided to prattle on about Thomas Cook when the prime minster’s recent shoeing at the pleasure of the Supreme Court was surely the biggest, widest open goal any leader of the opposition will ever have. He should have gone at it relentlessly for 15 minutes (pretty much as Boris did in his opening speech) but, bizarrely, he didn’t.
I tend to believe Boris’ suggestion that Corbyn personally does want to lance the boil and have an election, but is being held hostage by his own shadow cabinet. I loved it when Boris made a snide reference to “the shadow leader of the opposition”.
