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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, Suspectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Forsythe and we've just had Prime Minister's questions. I think it's fair to say after quite a torrid few weeks for the Prime Minister, there's quite a lot of pressure in advance at this Prime Minister's questions, given last week's was approaching disastrous. Isabel, did the Prime Minister deliver?

I think he was more confident than last week, not least because he didn't have this coal that really took a lot of his energy away last week. But he also didn't come away from the session looking

any more authoritative. In fact, it was quite obvious that there had been quite a bit of work

to get as many Conservative MPs in the Chamber as possible, because last week the support

seemed quite sparse and to get those MPs making supportive noises as the Prime Minister spoke.

And that looked quite defensive, possibly not in a good way.

I mean, it's great that they, you know, agreed to turn up because, you know, when a Prime

Minister is in real trouble, when they ignore the Whips instructions.

But Sir Keir Stama had a lot of fertile ground,

and he did actually, I think, in this instance, make the most of it.

He had some really good lines.

He asked the Prime Minister halfway through,

is everything okay Prime Minister,

but he also shot back when Boris Johnson was defending his social care reforms

by saying from his description of the social care

reforms, it actually sounded like the broken system he was claiming to fix. And joking that,

oh, the Tory MPs have decided to turn up this week, various other lines that he clearly had

prepared in advance, such as saying that the current Downing Street approach was like a Covent Garden pickpocketing operation where the PM was charming people while the Chancellor took the money out of their pockets.

So it was an effective session for the Labour leader.

I wouldn't say that Boris Johnson came away from it with more troubles, but he certainly didn't have fewer at the end.

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