Some familiar, arcane terms are returning to the fore as the Tories study the tactics Labour used against Boris Johnson

The lexicon of a British parliamentary scandal is arcane.

As Keir Starmer fights to remain prime minister, he has had to respond to a “humble address”, had his judgment picked over during an “emergency opposition day debate” and now faces the ignominy of a “privilege motion”.

There are hoaxes or half-truths that can change the course of a country’s history, and others that are simply met with indifference, because it’s not a time for revolutions. When Boris Johnson was a correspondent in Brussels for The Daily Telegraph, his story about the supposed — and false — effort of EU bureaucrats to ban prawn cocktail-flavored crisps, so popular among the British, became another wave in the Brexit storm. Another affront that had to be avoided.

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