LEGACY, legacy, legacy.

Question after question at PMQs was asking Maggie May if, during her extended farewell, she would do this or do that before she shuffled off to the peace and quiet of the Swiss Alps when, of course, she has little or no power to do anything anymore.

Not surprisingly, the long shadow of the Tory leadership - or rather Boris Johnson - hung over the Westminster proceedings as the SNP’s Highland champion rose to deliver a large poke to the eye of the Conservative frontrunner; who, to no one’s surprise perhaps, was absent once again.

The Nationalist Bagpuss had his Boris quotes well-prepared and barked: “Scottish people are a ‘verminous’ race that should be placed in ghettos and exterminated.”

And: “He has called Muslim women ‘letter-boxes,’ described African people as having ‘watermelon smiles’ and another disgusting slur that I would never dignify by repeating.”

Of course, one had to point out what, if anything, this had to do with Thezza’s policies in Government but, then again, Parliament is in a rather distracted mood at the moment.

But the big B was not finished. Puffing out his chest, he snapped: “If that is not racist, I do not know what is. Does the Prime Minister honestly believe that this man is fit for the office of Prime Minister?” Of course, she doesn’t but, like Rory and espionage, she cannot say.

The r-word got the Tory berserkers going; as the SNP chief knew it would.

Faces turned purple, fingers were jabbed at the Nats and several Conservative honourable members shouted “withdraw” as they looked at Mr B and then looked at the Speaker and back again.

At first Mr Bercow appeared not to have been listening as he asked if the Highland champion had in fact been referring to Bozza. As MPs nodded, the Speaker then politely suggested in which case Mr B should withdraw his allegation of racism. “I do not think this is the forum and I do not think it is the right way to behave.”

But the chief Nat pressed on and refused to withdraw much to the purple-faced indignation of the Tory backbenchers.

However, the PM sought to lower her colleagues’ blood pressure by telling the grinning SNP benches: “Any future Conservative Prime Minister will be better for Scotland than the Scottish Nationalist Party.”

The Tories hooted away. Did even some of them begin to think, please don’t go Thezza? Er, no. Bumbling Boris is waiting in the wings.