Tories who still support Theresa May are as rare as bumblebees in Antarctica. Her backbenchers were too polite to mention her imminent departure at PMQs but her opponents couldn’t resist poking fun. The PM began with her ritual announcement about ‘meeting ministerial colleagues and others’. Up stood John Woodcock.
‘She may not have long left, and good luck with those “meetings later today”’.
Mike Amesbury said his question about lease-holders would interest her, ‘now that she’s about to move house.’ Toby Perkins asked her to increase SEN funding ‘in her final days.’
Jeremy Corbyn led on school budgets too. They’re down, he claimed. As he always does. No, no, they’re up, said the PM. She always makes this claim as well. Neither will shift their position, and their exchange today sounded like a sketch about a deaf shopkeeper.
Corbyn: Why are 26 schools so short of cash they have to close every Friday?
May: We are giving every area more money for every pupil in every school.
Corbyn: Has per-pupil funding risen or fallen since 2010?
May: We are giving every area more money for every pupil in every school.
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