A walk in the park for David Cameron at PMQs this week. Jeremy Corbyn asked six questions on housing, but they were all too long and lacked any edge: they were the opposite of forensic. Cameron simply batted them away and rattled off a list of what he had done and the supposed failings of the last Labour government.
Even Corbyn’s tactics of sourcing questions from the public backfired on him this week. As he talked about an email he had received from Rosie the House fell about — assuming it was a reference to Rosie Winterton, the chief whip, who is known not to be her leader’s biggest fan.
Angus Robertson, who can normally be relied upon to put Cameron under more pressure than Corbyn, didn’t have a successful outing either. He asked about the delay in the fiscal framework talks, giving Cameron the chance to point out that the SNP’s independence economics didn’t add up now that the oil price has fallen away and that if they had won the referendum, Scotland would be ‘weeks away from financial calamity.’
Remarkably, not a single MP raised the junior doctors’ strike or Mary Cameron signing a petition opposing the closing of children centres in the Prime Minister’s own constituency. It all left one wondering if the Labour whips have just given up.
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