KemiKaze spares Starmer's blushes: you turn if you want to. The lady's not for listening

Tory backbenchers had their heads in their hands as Kemi stuck to her prepared script. All she had to do was stick the knife into the PM

- John Crace

It could have been worse. Kemi Kaze could have used all six of her questions at prime minister's questions to have re-examined the Tories' very own rubbish Brexit deal, just as she had for the previous two days, mistakenly believing that this time - maybe, this time - she could find the killer line. It would have been too much to expect her to have realised there wasn't one. But no, Kemi chose to cut her losses. A triumph of sorts. Only the Tory leader then went on to snatch a humiliating defeat when all she had to do was tap the ball into the emptiest of nets.

Keir Starmer couldn't have made life any simpler for the Conservative leader. In an answer to a planted question from the Labour backbencher Sarah Owen, Keir made the loudest of U-turns on winter fuel allowance payments right at the start of PMQs. Not that he called it a U-turn. More a totally planned change of heart, despite the fact he had spent much of the previous few months denying he had any intention of reversing the previous budget.