Corbyn pinpoints May’s Brexit weak spot

The most testing half an hour of Theresa May’s day won’t be PMQs. Instead it’ll come this evening when she addresses EU leaders on Brexit. Jeremy Corbyn did, though, go on Brexit.

The Labour leader rightly identified the December joint report, which Theresa May agreed to, as her biggest area of weakness. Much of what May now says is unacceptable when it comes to Northern Ireland flows from that document. But, as is so often the case, his questioning wasn’t forensic enough. He didn’t pin the Prime Minister down or follow up on her answers.

This was a fairly low-key session of PMQs. John Bercow spoke less than usual, perhaps a product of the controversy following the Cox report. There was a very powerful question from Teresa Pearce about a constituent who can’t go to work because of harassment but is being treated by her employer as if she is the problem.