This week’s PMQs was dominated by the extraordinary arrest of Peter Mandelson, who was detained after police were allegedly warned he was preparing to flee the country by no other than the Speaker of the Commons, Lindsay Hoyle.
Camilla and Tim react to the explosive exchanges at PMQs, including Kemi Badenoch’s attack branding Labour the “paedo defender party”, the Tories’ choice to go hard on student debt, and some very obviously planted questions on the Gorton and Denton by-election.
And Tim headed to Gorton and Denton ahead of a knife-edge by-election to try (and mostly fail) to track down Zack Polanski, the Greens’ leader.
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