Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

PMQs is broken and only Brexiteers know how to fix it

PMQs is clearly broken and only Brexiteers know how to fix it. Theresa May should leave. Jeremy Corbyn should remain and put questions to Boris next week and to Jeremy Hunt the week after. A test of both candidates in match conditions would be welcomed by all. But it won’t happen. A Tory party that can’t extract us from the EU has no hope of giving PMQs the tweak it needs.

Today we had another snooze-in with Tory backbenchers falling over each other to congratulate May on her exemplary record and visionary leadership. She’s the worst PM since Eden and they all pretended she was Pericles.

Andrea Leadsom praised her work on behalf of disadvantaged babies. The PM, to the astonishment of nobody, agreed with her. She hoped that in future,

‘Where a child gets to depends on their talents not on their background.’

‘Background’ is code for ‘parents’, of course, but it’s unwise to alienate voters by telling the truth.

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