Corbyn should be ashamed of his coronavirus point scoring

So there I was being non-partisan by praising the Labour party for its generally mature response to the coronavirus crisis when clearly I should have been putting this down to Jeremy Corbyn’s erratic level of engagement with major events rather than a deliberate strategy. Because it turns out that shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth’s wise mixture of qualified support for the Government underpinned by the asking of sensible, probing questions was not, after all, sanctioned by the Leader of the Opposition himself.

Instead, despite his impending exit stage left, Corbyn has found irresistible the temptation to try and weaponise one of the biggest governmental challenges of our lifetimes against the prime minister of the day. Yesterday he recorded for BBC News one of those utterly vacuous ‘it’s a shambles’ responses opposition leaders often decide is their best bet when they are unsure what they would be doing were they in the hot seat.