QUENTIN LETTS at PMQs: The only cabinet ministers who looked cheerful were Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting. Might they be fancying their chances?
QUENTIN LETTS at PMQs: The only cabinet ministers who looked cheerful were Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting. Might they be fancying their chances?
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Ding ding! After the first five months of the Labour Government the fighters returned to their stools. Mr Speaker rang the bell on the last PMQs of the year and the cornermen rushed ringside to crouch round Sir Keir Starmer and apply sponges, styptic pencils and petroleum jelly to his wounds.
![[Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch reacts during the Prime Minister's Questions]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/21/93293571-14207635-image-a-24_1734559022259.jpg)
What a rough time he has had. In parliamentary terms there may be at least another nine rounds to go (provided he is not knocked out). The sensible part of him must dread it. Sir Keir was not the only one looking dented by events. Rachel Reeves, sitting beside him, has in five long months gone from sleek supremo to something shrivelled, downcast, deflated.
![[The last PMQs of the year took place today rounding off five months of the Labour government]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/21/93293663-14207635-image-a-38_1734559161475.jpg)
In a J M Synge play she would be shrouded in a grubby blanket, keening and begging for spuds. The transformation in Ms Reeves is terrible to behold. It is a caution – against pride, wrath and class envy – of Biblical proportions. That Budget did for her what driving through flood waters can do to a low-slung car.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) in the House of Commons today. Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch reacts during the Prime Minister's Questions. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson glowered and shook her inky hairdo in dissent as Kemi Badenoch questioned Sir Keir about his iffy start.
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