Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

May’s PMQs attitude should worry Corbyn

Poor Jeremy Corbyn seemed muted and cowed at PMQs. He stooped over the despatch box, his chin down, his voice murmuring like a trapped bluebottle, his stature loose and uncertain. He grizzled through his six questions without a trace of passion or conviction. He couldn’t even whip himself into his trademark strimmer-call of petulant outrage. Is he having a bit of a crisis? Last night Jewish protestors gathered outside parliament to denounce him. Which is rather ironic. One story has it that his parents met at an anti-Mosley rally. Perhaps the parents of a future Labour leader will meet at an anti-Corbyn march.

May had brought up Labour’s anti-Semitism last week so she had a perfect excuse to mention it today. She didn’t. And that should worry Corbyn. She now regards him as an electoral liability who needs to be preserved. It’s nearly a year since she behaved like that.

Corbyn sheltered behind the safest of dead-safe topics.

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