Thread by @fascinatorfun

“If there have been worse performances from a prime minister at the dispatch box in the last five years, no one could remember them. Much more of this and letters will be piling up in the 1922 Committee demanding the return of Theresa May.”

theguardian.com/politics/2019/…

2/. “Long before the end of his 90-minute appearance, most of his Tory MPs had left. Even those who clung to their careers enough to vote with him later in the day would now do so only under sufferance as it dawned on them just how badly they had been mis-sold.”

3/. “The PPI claims hotline for duff prime ministers would soon be in meltdown.”

@JohnJCrace on absolutely cracking excoriating form here.

4/. “We are on the verge of taking back control,” Johnson began. Just as Tory MP, Phillip Lee, rose from the Tory benches and crossed the floor of the house to join the Lib Dems. In that moment the Tories had lost their majority.”

5/. “Taking back control now looked rather like losing it completely.”