PMQs: Corbyn’s farcical reshuffle has overshadowed everything else

Jeremy Corbyn actually asked six reasonable questions at PMQs today. But his attack on the government’s handling of the floods will be completely overshadowed by his chaotic reshuffle; one shadow Minister actually resigned during PMQs.

The Tories were itching to bring up the Labour reshuffle. The first question from a Tory MP asked Cameron to reassure her that condemning terrorist attacks was not a bar to holding high office, a reference to Pat McFadden’s sacking. Then, in reference to a question about the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death from Nadhim Zahawi, Cameron rattled off a series of pre-prepared gags, cracking that the reshuffle was a ‘comedy of errors’.

But far more effective than the knockabout was when Cameron questioned why those on the Labour front bench were prepared to serve under Corbyn given his views on foreign policy and defence. Cameron rather spoiled his punch line by asking what they were doing in this ‘Labour government’, but the expressions on the Labour front bench suggested that the attack had hit home.