"You could argue that prime minister's questions is no longer fit for purpose. Indeed, that it never really has been. Just a theatre showcase for some performance politics where few answers are ever extracted from the prime minister. To which you might now add that the Tories are not the real opposition. So Kemi Badenoch is essentially an impostor. Sometime over the summer the mantle of official opposition passed to Reform UK. So it really should be Nigel Farage, not Kemi, asking the questions."
"All their attention is focused on fighting Farage now that Reform are 15 points ahead in the polls. Even Reform think Reform are the official opposition. They don't give the Conservatives a second thought. Nor does the rest of the country. No one is listening to Kemi. Not least because the main broadcasters no longer bother to screen her speeches."
"Wednesday's PMQs should have been a gimme for Kemi. As close to an open goal as you can get. Just half an hour before the start, the Guardian had broken the story that Angela Rayner had admitted she had underpaid the stamp duty owed on her Hove flat by up to 40,000. Now was the time for Kemi to rip up her prepared questions and go all out to embarrass Labour."
Prime Minister's Questions has become a theatrical showcase for performance politics where few answers are extracted from the prime minister. The Conservative Party has become politically irrelevant, with Kemi Badenoch described as an impostor holding a leadership that fails to command attention. Reform UK under Nigel Farage has overtaken the Conservatives in the polls and is treated as the de facto official opposition. Broadcasters increasingly ignore Conservative speeches, further diminishing Kemi's visibility and political impact. A recent revelation that Angela Rayner may have underpaid stamp duty presented an opportunity to embarrass Labour, but Kemi failed to pivot and exploit that advantage.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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