This was Les Mis in the Commons – and Kemi Badenoch couldn’t resist hamming it up | Simon Jenkins
The Tory leader should have supported Labour’s welfare bill – but such responsible behaviour would have defied the norms of British politics
They roared, they wept, they cheered. The audience gasped and the markets plunged. The critics loved it. Foreigners are famously envious of British politics played as fun.
I always thought it cruel to attack a person in tears. Tell that to the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch. Her savaging of the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, at prime minister’s questions (PMQs) on Wednesday might have been a scene from Les Misérables. It was great theatre, but what had it to do with governing the country?
Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
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