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The Guardian's latest Politics Weekly podcast is out. Heather Stewart and Peter Walker discuss the latest from Westminster. Plus Anita Boateng and Paul Harrison review the prime minister's performance at the Conservative party conference.

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Boris Johnson has always been weak at PMQs, but mostly that has primarily come over as a performance problem. Today he was a bit stronger than usual performance-wise, but it was obvious that, even if he possessed the parliamentary oratorical brilliance of someone like William Hague, he would have failed to have come out on top because he's handicapped by a fundamental policy problem; he is trying to defend a Covid strategy that just isn't working.

Sir Keir Starmer highlighted this best in his fourth question. He asked:

In Bury, when restriction were introduced, the infection rate was around 20 per 100,000. Today it's 266. In Burnley it was 21 per 100,000 when restriction were introduced. Now it's 434. In Bolton it was 18 per 100,000. Now it's 255. The prime minister really needs to understand that local communities are angry and frustrated. So will he level with the people of Bury, Burnley and Bolton and tell them, what does he actually think the problem is here?

In the prime minister's own local authority Hillingdon, today there are 62 cases per 100,000 yet no local restrictions. But in 20 local areas across England, restrictions were imposed when infection rates were much lower. In Kirklees it was just 29 per 100,000. Local communities, prime minister, genuinely don't understand these differences. Can he please explain for them?

For the prime minister's benefit, let me take this slowly for him. We support measures to protect health. We want track and trace to work. But the government is messing it up and it's our duty to point it out.