The exchange illustrates a much deeper problem with how our politics works today.
For too long, Westminster debates have come off as a pantomime.
Politicians trade soundbites and sneers while the things people actually care about – broken housing, inequality, climate inaction, and real problems with the immigration system – go unanswered.
Each time this happens, public trust erodes a little more. People switch off. Cynicism grows. This is the kind of exchange that makes politics feel like a bad joke.
But democracy doesn’t have to be like this. We deserve a politics where real questions are met with real answers. Where honesty, accountability, and principle matter more than point-scoring and media spin.
We’re calling for democratic renewal so that we can actually have hard conversations. That’s the entire point of democracy, to debate and refine policy so that it works for all of us.
I’m tired of watching this tragic comedy unfold in Westminster – and I’m quite sure most of the country is, too.
Surely, we can do better.
