PMQs today was an old-fashioned, political barney. I have rarely heard the chamber as loud as it was today. Corbyn’s final question – which was, in reality, more of a speech – was inaudible up in the press gallery because of the noise below. But to the relief of May loyalists, there were no hostile questions for her from her own side: no fuel was thrown on the fire started by last night’s meeting of the European Research Group.
Corbyn’s questions were on Universal Credit. May tried to turn his usual PMQs tactics back on him, and quoted ordinary people who had benefited from universal credit. But the tactic wasn’t as effective defending government policy as it can be attacking it; something would be very wrong if no one had gained from a government policy.
May did though, have one effective moment in the exchanges.
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