Boris Johnson’s blue-on-blue warfare overshadows the usual Rish! routine | John Crace

Sunak and Starmer seem trapped in an endless loop at PMQs. The real action was elsewhere

Remarkable, really. Call it the joys of cognitive dissonance. Listen to Rishi Sunak speak for more than a few seconds and you will get the impression you are living in some kind of nirvana. That the UK is a blissed-out superstate. A land of plenty, where joy is unconstrained.

Prime minister's questions appears now to be on an endless loop. A new dimension of space-time in which everything invariably comes back to the same point. The format is always the same. Keir Starmer asks some relatively straightforward question about an area of government policy he thinks isn't working so well, and Rish! just denies it. Worse than that, he gets really upset if his reality is in any way challenged.