As a biographer of Winston Churchill, Boris Johnson will be aware of the quote: “The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you.”
PMQs begins
Boris Johnson is on his feet, as this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions gets under way
Sajid Javid has taken a seat on the backbenches for the first time in a long time.
Why was Chris Pincher in a position of power? asks Starmer
The prime minister says the individual, Chris Pincher, no longer has the Conservative whip and as soon as the PM was made aware of the allegation, he lost his status as a Conservative MP and is now the subject of an independent investigation.
BJ lies already … 
Silence as Starmer accuses front bench as well as PM
The important question PM keeps avoiding
Boris Johnson was asked yesterday by the BBC’s Chris Mason if he had called Chris Pincher ‘Pincher by name, Pincher by nature’ - and he sidestepped the question.Keir Starmer asks again and the question is avoided. It’s an important question for Conservative MPS who are considering whether to resign as it would suggest that the PM was willing to have Pincher in government, despite concerns about his reputation.
Instead, the PM wants credit for withdrawing the whip from Pincher now
Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer should “hear what his lot say about him”.
Is “whataboutery” now the only Tory defence mechanism … 
Starmer calls on those in government to have “some respect”. He says for a week they have been defending his decision to promote a “sexual predator”.
He points to a number of the PM’s claims over the handling of the situation Starmer says have proven to be untrue (1).
(1) i.e. lies.
Starmer receives the most enthusiastic response from his own benches for some weeks …
