PMQs this week takes place in the context that Sir [sic] Simon Clarke has, by his own reckoning, fired a gun on a leadership race. Unfortunately, the gun was pointing roundly at his own face. Sir Simon’s attempt to do a Lidl Geoffrey Howe fell on deaf and, frankly, annoyed ears. To Tory MPs, it sounded like a man on the Titanic suggesting that what was actually needed was more icebergs. Even Liz Truss — not renowned for a close personal relationship with reality — disowned the attempt to sabotag