For those tuning in to today’s PMQs, the opening squabble between Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer was more “irretrievable data loss” from The Thick of It, than the sombre questioning you might expect the day after the UK saw the highest Covid daily death toll on record.
After giving his pre-prepared statements on Joe Biden (he was looking forward to working with him “on our shared priorities”) and the flooding from Storm Christoph (he will later chair a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee), the Prime Minister assured the House that the government would provide free school meals to those children who are eligible over the February half-term.
