The Conservative leader made a hash of her response to Keir Starmer's statement to the Commons on the G7 and Nato summits this morning. She began with a humourless complaint: "He has evaded Prime Minister's Questions for two weeks, only to come back here to tell us what we already heard on the news."
For all that Starmer is said to lack political instinct, he hit back with some effect: "To suggest at a time like this that the prime minister attending the G7 summit and the Nato summit is avoiding PMQs is unserious."
The suggestion that the UK should not bother to attend global summits was picked up repeatedly by Labour MPs – and even by Mark Pritchard, Tory MP for the Wrekin, who said: "I agree with the prime minister that, as far as possible in this place, it would be better to keep partisan politics out of national security issues. Who knows, I may get the whip withdrawn for saying that, but so be it."
In answer to questions after her speech this afternoon, she kept digging, saying that there was no reason PMQs had to be at the same time every week.
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