PMQs: Corbyn accuses May of ‘dancing round’ on Brexit

It’s a measure of quite how badly split the government is on Brexit that Jeremy Corbyn, who would previously avoid the matter because of problems in his own party, looked comfortable as he devoted all six of his questions at Prime Minister’s Questions today to the subject. Theresa May came prepared, not so much with answers on who in her government is telling the truth about the Chequers agreement and the chances and consequences of a no deal, but with attacks on Corbyn’s handling of Labour’s anti-semitism row.

This preparation gave the Prime Minister some decent pay-offs, including her final answer, when she closed the exchanges by saying ‘he should be ashamed of himself’. But Corbyn succeeded in highlighting the level of confusion and disagreement within the government with a series of quotes from senior politicians about no deal. He also cracked a reasonable (by the standard of today’s PMQs, that is) joke about the Prime Minister ‘dancing round all the issues’.