BORIS Johnson channelled Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator in his final session of Prime Minister’s Questions, leaving MPs with the words, “Hasta La Vista, baby.”

Nearly all of the Tory benches jumped to their feet and clapped as the man they turfed out of No 10 just two weeks ago left the Commons. 

One notable exception was Theresa May, who stood with her colleagues but refused to clap. 

The phrase, which is largely associated with the 1991 action film Terminator 2: Judgment Day, translates as, "until the next time we see each other."

However, No 10 later denied that it meant the Prime Minister was planning a comeback. 

"That was his way of saying farewell to his colleagues," his spokesperson said.

During the session, the outgoing Tory leader - who soon after coming into office made himself the Minister for the Union - knocked back a number of questions from SNP MPs about a referendum, insisting the priority for people in Scotland was on schools, health and taxes.

SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford attack the Prime Minister’s legacy, saying: “His Tory Brexit slashed £31bn from the economy. The biggest fall in living standards since the 1970s. People’s pay in real terms falling at the fastest rate on record. The worst economic growth forecast in G20, and the highest inflation in 40 years.”

Mr Blackford asked: “Isn’t it the case that the Prime Minister’s legacy of catastrophic mismanagement has paved the way for the end of the Union?"

The Prime Minister criticised “the Scottish nationalists’ record”, saying: “I’m afraid Scottish school standards are not where they should be, because of the failings of the SNP. They are failing people who are tragically addicted to drugs, and the people of Scotland are facing another £900m in tax, because of the mismanagement of the SNP.”

Mr Blackford rejected the attack, insisting that Scotland’s NHS was “the best performing in the United Kingdom and education standards under the SNP are moving in the right direction."

As Tory MPs shouted “lies,” Mr Blackford went on to say that the people of Scotland will remember this Prime Minister as a “rule breaker.”

The Prime Minister said that when the SNP man retires his croft he should “reflect on his long-running campaign to break up the greatest country in the world.

“And I hope he will reflect on the pointlessness of what he is trying to do and think instead about the priorities of the people of Scotland,” he added.

The Speaker called a number of other SNP MPs during the session, all of them asking about a second referendum. 

Inverclyde MP Ronnie Cowan compared the UK’s slow economic growth with other OECD nations, asking: “Why should Scotland not be afforded the same opportunity to seek prosperity through being a sovereign independent nation standing as an equal among other equal nations?”

The Prime Minister replied that Scotland was protected by the “massive fiscal firepower” of the UK Treasury.

SNP deputy Westminster leader Kirsten Oswald said Scotland was “paying a high price for his disastrous hard Brexit imposed against the wishes of Scottish voters”.

She added: “It is time to end this democracy denial Prime minister, Scotland can’t afford to stay shackled to this crumbling union and Tory governments that we don’t vote for.”

Mr Johnson replied: “This is the country that secured furlough, that delivered the vaccine across the whole of the UK, while the SNP gets on with overtaxing to the tune £900 million – that is what they are overtaxing in Scotland – and we had a referendum in 2014.”

Meanwhile, John Nicolson asked the Prime Minister if, as he “limps off into the history books” he could detail who would be on his “defenestration honours list.”

“How many of his cronies will he ennoble? Can we expect him to surpass Harold Wison with a lavender list of dodgy donors, obsequious courtiers and pinchers by nature?” he asked. 

The question was criticised by the Speaker who described it as “very poor”. 

There was some support for Mr Johnson from West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP, Andrew Bowie. 

Just two weeks ago, he wrote to the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs to ask for another vote of confidence in Mr Johnson's leadership, saying that under his leadership the "government is not functioning." 

However, in the Commons on Wednesday, Mr Bowie praised the Prime Minister.

He said: “Can I thank my Right Honourable friend for his commitment to Scotland and the entire United Kingdom, and my friend the Secretary of State for Scotland for improving and increasing the visibility and involvement of the UK Government in Scotland over the past few years. 

“And does my Right Honourable friend agree with me that whoever takes his job and whatever comes next, the United Kingdom will always be stronger together than it ever will be apart?”

The Prime Minister said Mr Bowie’s question had been “brilliantly put.”

In their final clash, Mr Johnson compared Labour leader Keir Starmer to a  “great pointless human bollard”.

It came as the leader of the opposition listed the extensive criticism of the government made by the candidates in the Tory leadership race.

The Prime Minister told the Commons: “Every time something needs to be done, they [Labour] try to oppose it, he’s a great pointless human bollard – that’s what he is.”

Sir Keir later asked if former leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch was right to say she had warned former chancellor Rishi Sunak that he was “handing taxpayers’ money directly to fraudsters in Covid loans”.

He added: “She says he dismissed her worries and that as a result he cost taxpayers £17 billion. Does the Prime Minister think that she’s telling the truth?”

Mr Johnson replied: “This is one of the last blasts from Captain Hindsight, at least to me, because they were the party who were so desperate for us to be hiring their friends to get PPE, they wanted a football agent to supply PPE and a theatrical costumier to supply PPE, do you remember, Mr Speaker?

“We had to get that stuff at record speed, we produced £408 billion worth of support for families and businesses up and down the country, and the only reason we were able to do it at such speech was because we managed the economy in a sensible and moderate way.”

In his final question, Sir Keir said: “I think the message coming out of this leadership contest is pretty clear: they got us into this mess and have no idea how to get us out of it.”

Mr Johnson told Sir Keir: “What does it say about him that no-one can name a single policy after three years of the Labour opposition apart from putting up taxes?

“He’s one of those pointless plastic bollards you find around a deserted roadworks on the motorway.”

In his final words, the Prime Minister told MPs that his mission was "largely accomplished for now”

Mr Johnson said: “I want to use the last few seconds to give some words of advice to my successor, whoever he or she may be.

“Number one, stay close to the Americans, stick up for the Ukrainians, stick up for freedom and democracy everywhere.

“Cut taxes and de-regulation wherever you can and make this the greatest place to live and invest, which it is.

“I love the Treasury but remember that if we’d always listened to the Treasury we wouldn’t have built the M25 or the Channel Tunnel.

“Focus on the road ahead, but always remember to check the rear-view mirror.

“And remember above all it’s not Twitter that counts, it’s the people who sent us here.”

He continued: "The last few years have been the greatest privilege of my life, and it is true that I helped to get the biggest Tory majority for 40 years, and a huge realignment in UK poltics. We have transformed our politics and restored our national independence.

"We’ve helped, I’ve helped, get this country through a pandemic, and helped save another country from barbarism.

"And, frankly, that’s enough to be going on with. Mission largely accomplished - for now.

"I want to thank you, Mr Speaker, I want to thank all the wonderful staff of the House of Commons, I want to thank all my friends and colleagues, I want to thank my friend opposite, I want to thank everybody here, and hasta la vista, baby, thank you."