Jeremy Corbyn tried to take his ‘new kind of politics’ to PMQs today. To do this, the Labour leader asked David Cameron questions which were sent to him by members of the public. While many praised this new approach with the X Factor’s Nick Grimshaw even tuning in, others were less convinced; Iain Dale, the LBC radio host, likened the format to an LBC phone-in:
Well, it turns out Dale was on the money. The first question Corbyn read out was from a woman called Marie from Putney, who asked about housing. While Twitter soon went alight as hacks tried to find out who the woman of the moment was, LBC managed to beat everyone else to it. Remembering that they have a regular caller-in by the name of Marie, producers contacted her to check if she was the same Marie that Corbyn had referred to. She then spoke with James O’Brien on LBC, confirming she was ‘lucky enough’ to have a question selected by Corbyn and praising his turn in the chamber:Loving that Jeremy Corbyn is using an LBC phone in format for PMQS. Next it's Marie in Braintree…
— Iain Dale ⚒️🇺🇦.🇮🇱.🇬🇪 (@IainDale) September 16, 2015
With Marie happy to fight Corbyn’s corner on the airwaves, Mr S suspects the Labour leader may have found a member of the public to rival Ed Miliband’s friend Gareth from Hampstead Heath.‘I think Jeremy put that point over very well today. I liked the way he did it in a calm and collected way. I liked the way he looked at him over the top of his glasses. I thought that worked very well and it was very calm, and the Prime Minister had to change his way of doing things.’
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