With Theresa May heading for the exit door you can understand why Prime Minister’s questions is regarded as slightly irrelevant at the moment.
The empty spaces on the Conservative benches point to where the priorities of the just-about-governing party lie.
Jeremy Corbyn could be forgiven if he also decided if he took his foot off the pedal while the Tories busy themselves with finding a new leader.
So it was to his credit that he chose to focus on the Government’s response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
As the Daily Mirror is running a campaign on Grenfell I cannot claim to be a neutral observer of the exchanges.
Many of the points raised by the Labour leader were exactly the same as those listed in our campaign demands: the immediate removal of cladding from all high rises, the strengthening of tenant rights, the retro-fitting of sprinklers and the reversal of cuts to firefighter numbers.
Mr Corbyn quietly questioned the Prime Minister on each of these areas.
Theresa May, with one exception when she ranted about Labour being a threat to the economy, hit the right tone in her responses.
She understood the pain of the survivors and accepted that private companies had been too slow to remove cladding.
We have become used to this from the Prime Minister since her first speech on the steps of Downing Street when she promised to tackle the burning injustices in the country.
She identifies the problem without ever fully understanding its true social impact.
The sympathetic words are rarely translated into meaningful action.
This blindness was on display again today.
When asked a specific question by Corbyn, such as pledging to set a deadline for the removal of cladding or extending the Freedom of Information Act to cover housing associations, she refused to give a direct answer.
The Labour leader, in one of this better performances, picked her up for failing to address his points but it was to little avail.
At one point she said the Government understood the need to strengthen tenants’ rights.
“That’s something I believe should be done,” she said.
This will be her legacy, an endless wish list of things that she believed should have happened but she never achieved.
