There was something fractious in the air on the BBC’s Politics Live TV show.

Panellists Kit Malthouse, Jim McMahan, Jacqui Smith and (especially?) Isabel Oakeshott went at each other, hammer and tongs (or the genteel BBC equivalent) on subjects ranging from Rishi Sunak’s new ‘Windsor Framework’ for Northern Ireland, migrant Channel crossings, the salad shortage and – ironically – standards of behaviour in public life:

The words were strong but if you watch the video clip through, you’ll actually hear some worthwhile comments on the issues of the day.

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