QUENTIN LETTS: Starmer's blunder over Boris showed that, under pressure, he cracks like a walnut

We may need Monsieur Poirot. On a day the Prime Minister descended to panicky slander, MPs were told that former transport secretary Louise Haigh vanished only after ‘further information came forward’ about her bad behaviour. On a day the Prime Minister descended to panicky slander, MPs were told that former transport secretary Louise Haigh vanished only after ‘further information came forward’ about her bad behaviour, Quentin Lett writes Mrs Badenoch, like Chief Inspector Japp, only progressed so far. When Mrs Badenoch produced the old line about how ‘we need conviction politicians not politicians with convictions’ it was Ms Rayner who leaned in to Sir Keir and, I think, prompted his ill-judged slander: he told the Tory leader that ‘two of her predecessors had convictions for breaking the Covid rules’. When Mrs Badenoch produced the old line about how ‘we need conviction politicians not politicians with convictions’ it was Ms Rayner who leaned in to Sir Keir and, I think, prompted his ill-judged slander: he told the Tory leader that ‘two of her predecessors had convictions for breaking the Covid rules’, writes Quentin Letts As the nasal knight must have known – he was, lest you forget, a top lawyer – Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were not convicted.