Kemi Badenoch had two chances to attack the government today: first at Prime Minister’s Questions, and then again in response to the Budget . The Tory leader used her first bite of the cherry to try to frame the Budget speech as being part of wider government chaos. The attack started out well, but lost steam towards the end.

Badenoch went off on a tangent about Angela Rayner

Badenoch started by paying tribute to ‘the many farmers who have come to Westminster today to protest the shameful attack on them in last year’s Budget’, before claiming that ‘this has been the most chaotic lead up to a Budget in living memory, with resignations, hostile briefings and leaks galore’. She was interrupted by Lindsay Hoyle scolding some noisy hecklers on the backbenches: the Speaker told them that if

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