A QUESTION OF SPORT

Ed Miliband made a rare intervention at Wednesday’s PMQs to savage Donald Trump for caging children.

It coincided with a new book, Punch and Judy Politics, by former Labour aides Ayesha Hazarika and Tom Hamilton who used to brief Ed for PMQs when he was leader.

In the book, Tony Blair tells of a Tory shouting at him that his flies were undone while he was at the dispatch box.

The ex-PM remembered: “I couldn’t start fondling myself to pull them up. But when I sat down I looked and it was a bloody lie.” Talking of asking questions – the BBC should repeat auditions for their new presenter which got

David Dimbleby the job 25 years ago – a panel staging mock Question Times.

They were ex-Home Secretary Charles Clarke, aide to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock, my BBC TV partner Jo Phillips, who was Lib Dem chief Paddy Ashdown’s press secretary, and Tory Home Secretary Michael Howard’s adviser, one David Cameron.

They’re still available. Especially Cam who’d welcome a change to twiddling his thumbs. Tory dinosaur Sir Christopher Chope has had a taste of his own medicine.

Sir Christopher, 71, was still recovering from having his Commons office door decorated in knicker bunting as a protest for trying to kill off the private members’ bill outlawing upskirting by calling “object”.

One of his own private member’s bills came before a Whitehall adviser for approval last week. She took great delight in scrawling over it in large block capitals: “OBJECT!”