The Prime Minister has an unusually high absence rate
It seems Rishi Sunak has concluded that his time is better spent as far away from the Commons Chamber as possible.
But aside from making Dowden, who is usually writing the jokes and then watching someone else deliver or indeed butcher them, happy, what is the point of Sunak’s regular absences from PMQs? Sunak isn’t bad at PMQs, and he doesn’t face a particularly terrifying opponent in Keir Starmer. In fact, both men seem quite happy to use the same attack lines every single week, to the extent that TV audiences might be forgiven for thinking they were accidentally watching an older session on catch up.
Dowden’s role in standing in for Sunak in the less important job of being scrutinised in the Commons chamber is designed to keep the Conservative troops happy. This essentially means some tribal attacks on Rayner and other Labour figures, so that they don’t turn on the Prime Minister.
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