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Prime Minister’s Questions is usually the biggest parliamentary moment of the week. This week it’s not even the biggest parliamentary moment of the afternoon.

Sir Keir Starmer chose a subject far away from today’s economic debates but no less serious for it: the Angiolini Inquiry into Wayne Couzens’ rape and murder of Sarah Everard, and the government’s record on violence against women and girls more generally.

Though the exchanges were a little lower-key than is typical, it was striking to see Rishi Sunak hitting back against Starmer’s argument by questioning his own record when he was Director of Public Prosecutions.

Starmer, in turn, made an argument he has also made about the economy and other issues - that the prime minister’s confidence in the government’s record is “at odds” with people’s experience of public services.

In just over an hour, Starmer will be up against Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor. During Budgets, the convention is that the leader of the opposition, rather than the shadow chancellor, responds to the chancellor.