PMQs Sketch: Corbyn’s sitting back and waiting for the Tory funerals

Jezza is one of the oldest Out campaigners in the Commons. He’s not quite the ‘Father of the Outs’ – Bill Cash claims that honour – but the Labour leader is next in line. Yet the referendum has led him to a shrewd, albeit unprincipled, decision. If your enemies are tearing each other apart, pull up a chair and enjoy the show. Hence his silence on Europe. A slow but strengthening civil war has begun within the Tory party and the vote itself will sound the death-knell for many a high-profile Conservative. So Corbo’s pleasant task is to sit back and wait for the funerals. Meanwhile he’s obliged to pick a fight of some kind at PMQs and today he lighted on an issue of great international moment: David Cameron’s failure to meet his promises on free kindergarten provision. That’s right. An entire generation of dribbling pink-faced toddlers – among them perhaps a future prime minister – is being denied the opportunity to eat sand, suck plastic dinosaurs and regurgitate chewed Rusks under the supervision of yawning babysitters funded by the Treasury.