PMQs unifies Tory MPs and weakens Jeremy Corbyn

On Sunday at noon, few would have predicted that Tory MPs would have come out of PMQs cheered and unified. But thanks to The Times’ Sam Coates revealing this morning that the Labour leader’s office have ranked their MPs from core group to hostile, David Cameron won this session hands down and cheered up Tory MPs in the process.

Jeremy Corbyn had plenty of material of his own to work with, Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation letter should be a rich seam for Labour. But when Cameron started quoting the rankings at every turn, Corbyn — remarkably, given that his team had had all morning to come up with one — had no comeback. He was reduced to, rather pathetically, telling Cameron to leave the theatre. The Tory benches meanwhile were loving it. Cameron could even indulge in a bit of self-depreciation, joking ‘I thought I had trouble’ until he read that Corbyn’s chief whip is ranked as hostile to him.