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Find out how we are busy helping Britain achieve net zero at www.edufenergy.com. Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots is Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Katie Bawls and I'm joined by James

Reif and Isabel Hardman. We just had Prime Minister's questions and it wasn't the usual duo,

Boris Johnson is still in America, so instead it was Angela Rainer versus Dominic Raab. Isabel, how did that go?

Well, these deputizing sessions are always much more of a sort of political knockabout,

a little bit more pantomimey, even than typical prime minister's questions that we have,

which some listeners might think, how is it possible for it to be even more like a pantomime?

But there we go.

And Angela Raina certainly had plenty of material to work with, not least Dominic Raab's

expensive holiday that was particularly ill-timed given it took place while the Taliban was

taking back over Afghanistan.

And his more recent reported spat over who gets access to the grace and favour mansion chievening,

and then more serious issues such as the cost of living and soaring energy prices and universal credit.

I think it's fair to say that Angela Rainer had a much more enjoyable session than Dominic Robb,

who always lacks the sort of

aplomb that Boris Johnson manages to deploy when he's avoiding answering questions. Dominic

Rob didn't answer any questions today, apart from the crucial detail, which was that Chevening is not

taxpayer funded, it's actually funded by a charity, he said, rather testily, when Angela Rainer had been mocking him. You think of all the things he could have dodged. He could have just ignored that barb, which wasn't even the main part of her question that she was asking. But he's got this irresistible tendency to quibble details when his own work ethic, when his own sort of morality is being questioned.

He always makes the story get a bit worse, and he did this over his holiday by talking about the beach, the sea being closed and all that sort of thing.

So Angela Rainer came out of it better than Dominic Rab, which I think if one was expecting.

But I suspect Dominic Raab's approach to the whole session was that he just needed to get through it and survive.

And so on that measure, he probably will be happy as well.

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