Hello, welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Hill and I'm joined today by Tim Shipman and Isabel Harpman.

Now, today, Tim, we head out rarest of all things, a potential PMQ's win for Keir Starma. Tell us more.

Yeah, I mean, I think he did pretty well today, not least because he was sort of just saying what he thinks about

things, which is all too rare these days.

Kemi Badernock went partly on Greenland and partly on the Chegos Islands and was trying to

sort of prosecute an argument that on Greenland, brackets where we agree with you, you think

it should be down to the people of Greenland and Denmark to decide what happens to them.

You stood up to President Trump. So why are you selling out on the Chegos Islands, which by the way, President Trump has

now changed his mind about and says it's all a terrible act of weakness? Starma, kind of

after a pretty punchy briefing from number 10 about what he'd said to the president,

then I think made the closest we'll ever see Kirstalmer do to tearing off his shirt,

twirling it around his head and doing the sort of Hugh Grant act from Love Actually.

And he seemed extraordinarily surprised and indignant that President Trump, in the same conversation about Greenland, had raised the whole issue of how Chagos was a disaster and the British Prime Minister shouldn't be doing it. And he sort of, Starboard got very, on his high, high horse, the state of high dudgeon about how he was challenging my principles and I will stand firm. And what began as a

sort of attempt by Kemmy Badernock to kind of Jimmy a sort of wrench between Starma and his party

and cause awkwardness and make the Prime Minister feel uncomfortable, it actually led to one of the

sort of signal statements of standing firm that this prime minister

has made. So it kind of backfired in that regard. And I think while a lot of people on the

Labour benches mostly look at Stama at PMQs and emerge thinking, oh my God, what are we going

to do? This is one of the rare occasions while I've walked out going, I actually think I understand where he's coming from a bit more. And in terms of being where the public is and making a strong sort of clear statement, he actually managed to do that today. And also I think, Isabel, by doing so, he kind of wrong-footed Kimmy Badenock, I think, who perhaps was expecting to see more of the kind of tone we saw a Monday,

when the Prime Minister clearly tried to set out his red line about Greenland not being invaded,

but also not mentioned Trump by name and just talked about the United States in quite a pake term,

actually talking about President Trump and criticising it implicitly and explicitly.

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