With Sir Keir Starmer in Evian, enjoying a likely last few days of prestige, we were down to the scrapings for PMQs. Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy faced Claire Coutinho, the Conservatives’ Energy spokesman. Her specialist subject is the oil sector and she made repeated mentions of Aberdeen, where, quite by chance, a by-election is happening.
‘Oil, Aberdeen, oil, Aberdeen,’ said Ms Coutinho, or something like that. It was not subtle. Tory strategists must think the Granite City is full of swing voters who sit at home at midday on Wednesdays simply to watch parliamentary TV.
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