Once again, the key takeaway from today’s Prime Minister’s Questions is what Keir Starmer didn’t say, rather than what he did. Kemi Badenoch wanted to use the session to tee up the Budget, or more specifically to tee up the tax rises that Labour is going to have to announce in that fiscal event. And Starmer wanted to use his answers to avoid the questions, while also trumpeting what he saw as Labour’s achievements on the economy.

For once in a good long while, the Tories were getting their share of attacks from the Prime Minister too

Badenoch was ready for Starmer dodging the question of whether he still stands by his promise not to put up income tax, national insurance or VAT. When he replied with a long-winded list of the things that were going well in the economy, she came back with:

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