Today’s PMQs marked a return to old form for Jeremy Corbyn. After two reasonably successful bouts against the Prime Minister, the Labour leader appeared to struggle as he failed to land any knockout blows.
Corbyn focussed on the NHS, beginning with mental health. While he claimed the NHS has gone into its worse crisis in its history, May managed to bat off his concerns fairly easily — even if he did expose some vulnerability in the government’s record. On funding, she simply pointed out that the Conservatives were giving the NHS more than it had originally asked for — something Ed Miliband had refused to guarantee at the general election. On cuts, the Prime Minister explained that the only party cutting NHS spending was Labour in Wales.
Despite Corbyn’s lacklustre effort, it wasn’t all smooth-sailing for May. She faced tough questions from the SNP’s Angus Robertson over arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
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