Dirty secrets provide Badenoch with the ammunition for a rare victory at PMQs

Some days you just have to write off. Keir Starmer might have guessed that this was going to be one of those days when he was woken up at 4am to be told that Russia had launched a drone attack that had gone into Polish airspace.

- John Crace

But even Starmer can't have been expecting to be thoroughly duffed up by Kemi Badenoch at prime minister's questions. That's just never been part of the script. The whole point of the Tory leader was that she had always been Starmer's strongest ally on a Wednesday lunchtime. Guaranteed to miss every trick.

Still. A stopped clock is right two times a day and all that. So sooner or later Badenoch was almost bound to get it right at PMQs. And yesterday she managed to get all her ducks in a row.

You could argue that Starmer may have seen this coming. If not at PMQs then at some other time. It was never a matter of if. Only of when. Hubris in waiting.