PMQ's unpacked on Times Radio, unpacking the politics and cutting through the crossfire.

And I'm joined as always by Times Chief Little Commentator Patrick McGuire. Hello Patrick.

Good afternoon, Hugo. I know I say this a lot, but quite weak.

They just keep getting quieter. There's nothing for us to do. They're going to have to make it so redundant.

Just loafing around. And we are also joined this week by the comedian and writer Andy Parsons. Hello, Andy. Yes, hello there. Yes, absolutely nothing going on. As Patrick says, we've got nothing to talk about. How are they going to do six questions? I've no idea. It says here that you're referred to as potato-headed comedian and writer Andy Parsons by the evening standard. Yes. That's nice to them. I did get, I do sort of, I open up with, I was described as phenomenally funny by The Guardian, and then obviously you give the bad one afterwards. I did actually have the reviewer from the Evening Standard who gave me that review. Can't remember ever giving it to me. Really? It's a slight tragedy, but it did improve time. Well, I agree with the Guardian, I would say. That's the side of this. That's the side of it. I'll go with it. Patrick, which vegetable do you feel your own head is shaped like? That's a great question. Thank you. I've got a very big head. Right. Is it disproportionately big? Maybe not disproportionately big. maybe it's genetic there There's this thing about big Irish heads, isn't there? Right. So I think that's on the paternal side. As you say big Irish head, they're back to the potato then, I think, is... Exactly. It's a nice circularity, that. My kids always say I've got an extremely small head, but a very big face. You do have a big face. big face. But if you look at the back of my head, there's almost nothing there. But the face is getting slightly bigger. Is that fair, Hugo? Did you have a big face when you had sort of grungy dreadlocks as a Ute? That's why I had all the hair to counteract the absence of all. This is in no way what I expect us to be talking about. I think we're having a little light-heartedness before maybe it gets a little more serious.

Well, let's turn on a we're having a little light-heartedness before.

Maybe it gets a little more serious.

Well, let's turn on a six-pence into the grim. Patrick, look, we don't know what's going to come up today, but Kemi Badernock could well ask his stammer about the police response to the murder of Henry Novak. It's quite hard to see exactly what her route would be there. I'm interested to know your thoughts,

but she might also want to ask him about the Prime Minister's use of disappearing WhatsApp messages,

splits and labour exposed by Peter Madelson's text. What are you expecting? Well, it is interesting because

Kemi Bainock, as much as Nigel Farage yesterday, dominated the airwaves with her response to the

Novak murder. But she was trying to frame it in an entirely

different way to Nardifrage. It wasn't sort of a straightforward attack on the government, though

her Shadow Home Secretary Chris Fult did write for us saying it was an example of two-tier policing.

So she could go on that. Strategically, you wonder whether she might go on Pat McFadden's quote about

welfare. You know,

Labour MPs asking who can we tax to pay for benefits? The other thing to be aware of, by the way, that we'll cover after half past, no doubt, is Nigel Farz has a question. So does he ask about Henry Novag? He's turned up this week, has he? He has. Only because he's got a question. Well, indeed. Indeed, no point otherwise, Nader Frage would say. Or does he ask about something different? Does he get himself a social clip for the voters and make a field? So big questions for both the leaders who've been talking about Henry Novak in the past 24 hours. Andy, we try quite often to try and sort of, you know, predict road test what Kemi but Badov might say. I sort of, I would say she's got a

problem this week, because obviously the big story is about Henry Novak, and there's a lot of

political feeling about it. And she is, she is not quite in the place where she needs to be to ask

a question on that from Kirstama. She could attack, she could attack Nigel Farage over it. Nigel Farage could attack Kirstama over it. Kirstama could attack Nigel Farage over it. Kemi Bednock on to Kirstema, I don't think she's quite got the line. Can't she have both ways? Can't she attack Nigel Farage, show how she thinks that, you know, the Conservative Party is different from Nigel Farage, and then come off the back of that to make sure that one of the questions, the first questions she asked, actually has a dig at Keer Starm at the same time. I think it'll be a long first question. Yeah, well, I mean, she does, she does quite often do that. She'll start with her, she'll start with her thought for the day and then segue into a question about something completely. One thing she won't be talking about is probably Makerfield, isn't it? Yeah, indeed. Given that she's virtually irrelevant there, and the best thing she can do to affect the result is to stand her candidate down pretty much. To the 12 Tory vote is left in Ashton on Makerfield, she can send a message, yeah. What are they on in Makerfield on the polls?

It's a low, low percent, isn't it? Oh, I think they're on about 3%. Which is just enough to affect it if they did it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, the only way is up. Look, I believe that before PMQ's begins, Kistama has given a statement about the Henry Novak murder. Let's see if we can hear that. Mr Speaker, Henry Novak's family have shown extraordinary dignity after their son's life was stolen in appalling circumstances.

He was clearly a kind and thoughtful and much loved young man.

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