Neil Moors wrote:Strong performance from Keir Starmer today in distancing himself from Jezza. Boris ended up looking silly with his (not even funny) scripted jokes.
One thing is fascinating, how desperate Boris is to get Keir to engage on Brexit and he just won’t do it. Very smart from Labour. Can’t win on Brexit here and now, so do engage in any way at all.
Saw this, it does make a lot of sense: Johnson can't debate, he is a bafoon, so they use their usual throw enough muck tactic/divide and rule:
Hitting back: Johnson’s strategy for dealing with Starmer has been interesting to watch over recent weeks, not least because you know it’s been focus-grouped within an inch of its life by No. 10. Johnson spent four consecutive weeks during their early encounters needling Starmer for his legal background and his supposedly “forensic” approach, before switching tack last month to start relentlessly accusing the Labour leader of “flip-flopping,” “yo-yoing,” “equivocating” and saying “one thing one week, and one thing another week.” Hansard reveals we’ve heard this kind of attack 16 times now from the PM, most memorably last week when he told Starmer he had “more briefs than Calvin Klein.” Someone, somewhere, is telling Downing Street this stuff is hitting home.
Methods of attack: Starmer, as we have seen, prefers to rely on stats, documents and the testimony to make his points for him. He’s quoted criticism from 14 different experts or groups over the 10 PMQs sessions; waved government data sheets around on five separate occasions; and quoted four international comparisons of corona performance.