That Starmer fella...

BJ's done the red face thing before, during the Brexit Proroguing stuff. I think it plays well with his audience.

When he's red-faced against parliamentary red tape, I agree with you. For the kind of voters Labour lost, it's like them getting to watch the schoolteacher have a go at a bully - one in the eye of the metropolitians who've spent the last few years trying to rob them of their Brexit vote.

But red-faced against people asking if he took a bung to do up his kitchen? That is a very different proposition. The voters we lost might take a bit of bullshit from a PM who's sticking it to their enemies, but as soon as that PM takes them for a mug the power balance changes. It's the people who want answers on this who are the target of that fury, and Johnson has never looked more like an entitled old Etonian, railing against the ordinary people trying to hold him to account, than he did during that last answer. And - the killer - it's a reasonable question, one which Johnson did not answer satisfactorily. It's not the most likely outcome - he's not called teflon for nothing - but there's a decent chance this'll land.

EDIT: the key point about both the above situations is that they're both about 'fair play', but Johnson is on the other side of the ledger on each one. I didn't make this clear earlier so wanted to call it out.

Incidentally the last thing I'd define the Daily Mail comments section as is 'the real world'.