Iain Duncan Smith given pointless grilling on how he sleeps and jobs fairs

Labour had an aggressive session at Work and Pensions Questions today, attacking the Conservatives on disability benefit cuts, and on whether they had any morals. Normally questions in the Commons are supposed to be about the design of policies, but today Owen Smith appeared to be taking a leaf out of Jeremy Corbyn’s book, asking a question he had crowdsourced:

‘Before I came here this afternoon, Mr Speaker, I asked disabled people what question they would like to put to the Secretary of State and one answer stood out and it was quite simply: how does he sleep at night?’

Funnily enough, Iain Duncan Smith didn’t supply any details of his sleep patterns. Other Labour MPs chipped in with questions criticising the cut to personal independence payment, with Debbie Abrahams saying the government had reached a ‘new low’, adding that it was a ‘dodgy, inept and unjust government’.