It’s not often the Prime Minister gets a derisive laugh from the House of Commons for telling them that he had meetings with ministerial colleagues that morning. However No. 10 making a complete hash of a coup against the PM (or was it actually a pre-emptive coup against the Health Secretary?) meant that once again Sir Keir was in the chamber having to answer questions about the chaos caused by his government outside.

The No. 10 debacle is really good stuff. These people can’t even commit governmental suicide properly. This was the Day of Dupes meets Mean Girls , meets the Chuckle Brothers . Of course it’s only the latest in a string of embarrassments this week. At the start of the session Tory MP and MC Lincoln Jopp begged the Prime Minister never to go away again on a Wednesday afte

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