Prime Minister’s Questions isn’t really about scrutiny. The thankless but important task of holding the government to account takes place in dusty committee rooms and low-key debates. Instead, PMQs is about theatre, boosting the morale of your backbenchers, testing out attack lines and ensuring the prime minister is on top of her brief.
For that reason, its aftermath is less about who won and who lost, and more often an insight into what the main party leaders are thinking. But we can throw that all out today. That was just weird.
