I do understand that, although this has changed a lot over the last 20 years or so.
It was a bit of an ambush though because it was asking about stuff which is not in the queens speech which Theresa May had mentioned sometime ago. A bit left field really but equally Boris should simply have...
Just listened to his again and the big thing that came across to me is what was he asked about his job as Foreign Secretary?
Whenever I have heard him on foreign issues he has sounded very knowledgable.
When Diane Abbot made a tit of herself she was specifically being asked questions about...