When will Starmer and Reeves finally get a proper grilling?

Not for a while, at this rate

- John Crace

Here will come a moment when the Labour claim that the Tories are to blame for everything will no longer stick. People will start shaking their heads and reckon Labour have something to answer for. But we're not quite there yet. At least not at prime minister's questions. For half an hour in the Commons every Wednesday the Conservatives remain the villains of the piece.

Partly it's the size of the Labour majority. The sheer volume of half-witted Labour MPs who are happy to bounce up and down to ask Keir Starmer whether he agrees with them that the Tories left the country in a shocking mess and only the prime minister can save their constituents. The Lib Dems and the SNP are only slightly fiercer critics of the present government. They too hate the Tories more than anyone else.