This was a holding-pattern PMQs. After last week’s fireworks in the wake of the bizarre briefings put out by No 10 regarding Keir Starmer’s leadership, today was very much a case of pre-Budget muddling through. On the Tory side, the strategy was to get the Budget attack lines in early. And there was much ammunition, after the frankly unprecedent move by Rachel Reeves to hold a press conference laying the groundwork for a manifesto-breaching rise in income tax, only to signal heavily at the end of last week that such a rise was not necessary after all. Kemi Badenoch had...
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