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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots of Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Katie Balls,

and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Forsyfe. We just had the first Prime Minister's

questions of 2021. And we saw quite a few tense exchanges in the Chamber. At one point,

the House of Commons Speaker got involved and asked Boris Johnson to retract

something he said, and then in a way cut Boris Johnson off and his final answer to Kirstama.

But I suppose in terms of the politics, the big push from Kirstama was on the need for tighter

restrictions, suggesting that Boris Johnson was going to fall into a pattern of waiting too long

to do it,

but eventually doing so anyway. Isabel, do you think this was an effective attack line?

Well, it's certainly one we've heard before, and it is a pattern that we've seen from both men before, really,

where Kirstama demands tougher restrictions. Boris Johnson pushes back against what Kirstama is saying

and accuses him of weakness of being Captain Hindsight or, as you say, of hypocrisy, which was his

line that the speaker asked him to withdraw today. Actually, another part of this pattern is that

Nicholas Sturgeon announces tougher curbs, which has just happened.

And then a couple of days later, the Westminster government follows suit.

And so you can see things being set up for that again.

Personally, don't think that Keistarmer managed to land many punches today, but I also don't think that Boris Johnson was in a particularly

strong position. It felt like a very repetitive PMQs. In fact, it reminded me of those

Prime Minister's questions where under David Cameron and Ed Miliband, where the two would just

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