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

Megan McElroy. I'm joined today by Tim Shipman, our political editor and Isabel Hardman, our

assistant editor. PMQ's is back. We are, of course, still talking about Lord Robertson's

interventions on military spending. Isabel, can you talk us through how this played out?

Yeah, I mean, it wasn't a good session for Keir Stammer.

It wasn't his worst, but that's because he's got pretty low standards.

He gave six answers to Camry Bader Notts questions,

which showed how little he really had to say to counter what Lord Robertson said in his speech

last night. So he had a planted question before Bader Nuk started from a Labour MP where he was

able to once again congratulate himself on his correct position on the conflict in Iran. But when it

came to Bade Nock actually

quoting George Robertson at him, he said, I disagree with Lord Robertson and listed the commitments

that Labour has made on defence while not really being able to address the substantive points

that Robertson has made about welfare versus warfare, about the defence investment plan, other than that

it's going to be published as quickly as possible, which, you know, is really telling because

it shows that the Prime Minister himself has not been able to resolve the issues with the defence

investment plan, and they won't be just issues with a broken printer. They will be much more

serious than that.

And so I think it showed his lack of authority on such a key topic.

One thing I thought that showed he wasn't totally floundering was that he didn't quote Ben Wallace this week, but he did bring up Liz Trust.

So he was still feeling quite insecure, I think.

And I thought Bade Nock had a much better session than him. She had some really good lines, particularly one about him prosecuting

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