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Hello and welcome to Coffee How Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast.

I'm Max Jeffery and I'm joined by Isabelle Hardman and James Hill.

It was PMQ's today, Isabelle, can you give us the highlights?

Well, it was rather formulaic in that Keir Starmer's talk to his theme of listing through his

six questions, various things that were broken about Britain and how the Conservatives were at fault

and didn't really land a particular blow on what she's seen. He didn't put him on under pressure

on any particular issue, but his list this week was obviously on the escape from ones with

prison of Daniel Collief. Then he also referenced concrete and small boats and also the allegations

of a Chinese spy working in the House of Commons and whether this had been raised in the meetings

that James Clevel in the Foreign Secretary had in Beijing. When he travelled there recently

and why Britain's position towards China hadn't changed or had at least remained confusing.

So it wasn't particularly earth shattering or indeed memorable exchange between the two men.

Rishi Stunakaki's Keir Starmer of being principles free, conviction free type of leadership,

he'll be flipped flopping from being a builder to a blocker which was a reference

to Labour's decision which we'll discuss shortly to vote against the government on it's

relaxation of the rules around nutrient neutrality in the planning system. I thought the more

interesting questions actually came from SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn who is very very good

at Prime Minister's questions, quite a contrast to his predecessor in Blackford, it has to be said.

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