Keir Starmer, please – scrap the distasteful weekly brawl that is PMQs | Simon Jenkins

Parliament’s fusty old procedures badly need updating. The PM should start with a spectacle that serves no benefit

Boring. That was the universal response to Wednesday’s first prime minister’s questions of the new parliament. Where was the screaming, yelling, insulting and air punching? This is supposed to be Strictly Come Politicking. Get off stage, the two of you. Zero points.

The Telegraph condemned the new PMQs as a “love-in”. The prime minister was like a teenager “breaking the news he had lo...