Thread by @IanDunt

Oh no it's PMQs

Starmer should just spend every question asking Johnson detailed football questions.

Starmer looks up at Kim Leadbeater, now in the Commons. It's a "special and emotional moment on these benches" to see her there, he says.

Starmer: "We wall want our economy to open and get back to normal. the question is whether we do it in a controlled way or chaotic way."

If infections reach 100K a day, what does the PM expect the number of hospitalisations, deaths and long covid to be?

PM: There are a number of projections and they are available.

Er, not really.

And we're back on the vaccine rollout.

Starmer: "The PM must and he certainly should know the answer to the question I asked him. That he won;t answer here in the House doesn't inspire confidence in his plan."

Starmer rename the Delta variant the Johnson variant.

Says, rightly, that the PM is reckless to open up everything all at once. But I do think Labour needs it's own concrete, well laid-out and comprehensive plan to make this attack work. He's a lot weaker for not having it.

Starmer: keep masks, improve ventilation, make sure track-and-trace is effective, and issuing payments for self-isolation. That is, to be fair, the foundation of a plan, but needs more detail.

Although it is good to hear at least one party talk about ventilating building - one of those things which would do a lot of good but is hardly ever discussed.

Johnson says Starmer "attacks" self-isolation. A completely deranged thing to say.

Johnson has so far ended every statement by asking Starmer a question. Tactic is rather obvious.

"What is the PM going to do to stop people deleting the NHS app because... millions of them are going to be pinged this summer to self-isolate?"

No answer from Johnson.

On masks, Johnson says we're moving from "legal diktat to personal responsibility".

Starmer: "He agrees it's commons sense because it protects the public but he won't make it mandatory. It's ridiculous."

Incredibly, Johnson is banging on about the European Medicines Agency again.

Grimly cynical and disingenuous answers from Johnson to Ian Blackford on the electoral bill. Says he wants to "protect the public from the idea of voter fraud" and that elections can be clouded by "the suspicion of voter fraud".

In reality, it is his party which has encouraged the baseless suspicion of voter fraud - a problem which does not exist in any meaningful way - to activate a voter suppression strategy.

The worst thing about Brexit is having to hear David Jones say the words "chilled meat". Like some kind of extremely tedious Bond villain, he calls for Johnson to do "whatever is necessary, legislative or otherwise, to fix the problem permanently".

Like being governed by cobwebs.