Jeremy Corbyn decided to re-release his greatest hits at Prime Minister’s Questions today, starting with Brexit but then moving on to poverty, education, police cuts and ‘burning i justices’. We’ve heard these questions many times before, and often in the same sequence, but today the Labour leader was using them once again to try to underline that Theresa May’s government is failing not just on Brexit but on everything else too. This didn’t work, though, because Corbyn only tried to tie the topics together in his very last question, and that question was particularly rambling.
Last night the Labour leader’s spokesman delivered a crisp line about the government being unable to govern because it couldn’t get its main business through. Corbyn’s questions were clearly an attempt to illustrate this, but he would have done better to thread that line throughout the questions, rather than appearing to leap around.
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