Today’s Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions was a particularly low-rent affair. Andrew Griffith was the Tory sent out to question David Lammy while Keir Starmer is in China. The Deputy Prime Minister had plenty of jokes prepared, including one in response to an early question from a Labour backbencher about a rubbish dump. He claimed that:You can feel the Deputy Prime Minister’s frustration. Lammy was able to bulldoze on with his figures about jobs, and on Griffith droned about Labour strangling business.