Prime Minister’s Questions should be reformatted so as to be less of a grandstanding gift to the PM (of any party) while spurring the PM to be less dismissive of the electorate (on whose behalf the questions are asked).
Perhaps the number of questions should be halved & the questioner given the right to respond to the PM’s answer thus encouraging more pertinent responses than - We are spending more money - or merely - We’ve done more than those on the benches opposite did (Nya-na-na-na-na! Ya boo sucks!).
A format akin to a weekly grilling of the PM by a select committee would be, for “Hard working British families”, a more fruitful method of interrogation. Questions from party stooges along the lines of - Would the Prime Minister agree with me that he/she is doing a wonderful job? - should be barred.
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