Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, The Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Megan McElroyd and I'm joined today by Tim Shipman, our political editor and Noah Hoffman, our political correspondent.

We've had the final PMQs of the parliamentary session.

Kirstama himself has set the Westminster rumour mill running.

Tim, what's he said?

Well, so what he didn't say that was the issue.

If you think back a few months to the time Rachel Reeves burst into tears in the House of Commons,

she obviously had some intense stuff going on outside of her political world.

But that was initially prompted by someone

basically saying, you know, do you stand by your chancellor? And, and Stalmers failed to do so. And today,

Kemi Badernock stood up and said, you know, look what's happened over the last year. It's the

end of the parliamentary term. Everything's gone to pot, essentially,

and, you know, you and Rachel Reeves are to blame. Why don't you get rid of her? And Starma just didn't

say anything. And I think this is a sort of case of, you know, this is a guy who, you know,

we've talked about this endlessly. He's just not attuned to the kind of political world and the

political game and he disdains it and he spent a lot of his time during this session of PMQ's

kind of gazing down his nose at the questions he was being asked and saying that essentially

everything that goes on is trivial. But it's, you know, if you can't hear that question and think that the

right thing to say is, of course I stand by my chancellor, even if you're playing to Saka straight

after the local elections in order to try and keep your premiership on track, you do not set hairs

running at this point. It's an absolute cost-free thing to say, of course I stand, it's ridiculous,

of course I stand by my chancellor. And of course, Downing Street, this then happened a second time. Kemi Bey had not pointed out to Stama that he had not done this. And I think the second time, I think probably the first time he was oblivious, the second time he was just stubborn and decided, well, this is stupid verbal games in the commons. I'm not going to play those.

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