Prime Minister's questions will not always be so easy for Keir Starmer.
When the Commons is once again back to full capacity and there will be baying MPs and discourteous heckles to deal with the Labour leader will find the challenge of pinning down Boris Johnson a more exasperating experience.
But today, his first outing against the Prime Minister, saw Starmer shine and Johnson squirm.
Each question by the Labour leader was a piece of precision engineering.
The elegance of their crafting was they sounded reasonable but were merciless at holding the Prime Minister to account.
Which, after all, is the exact job description of the leader of the opposition.
Starmer started by reminding the Prime Minister he had boasted of the government's “apparent success” in tackling the coronavirus crisis.
He then noted that having the highest death toll in Europe was neither a success or an apparent success.
“How on earth has it come to this?” he asked.
When Johnson blustered, and there was to be a lot of bluster from the Prime Minister, that it was too early to draw international comparisons Mr Starmer responded by asking why the Government published daily graphs illustrating the UK's performance against other countries.
Johnson seemed confused to be faced by a Labour leader who was not only completely on top of his brief but had the ability to cite the Government's own statistics to back up his argument.
When the Prime Minister tried to brush off a question about deaths in care homes, Starmer again was forced to remind him that he was quoting Government figures.
To question after question Johnson was obliged to concede to Starmer's points.
The deaths in care homes were “bitterly” disappointing, while the failure to provide enough protective kit was “enraging.”
Starmer even managed to extract some sort of confession from the Prime Minister that they did not have the capacity to roll out mass testing when the virus struck, though this line was buried in a jungle of words, caveats and pauses so it was barely discernible.
At the end of the exchanges the Prime Minister was left like Toad of Toad Hall after he had crashed his motorcar.
There were wheezes and noises but the sounds were those of a deflated figure of fun whose foolishness had been brutally exposed.
