What a very different atmosphere the House of Commons Chamber will have today for its first PMQs since the election. In the week before Parliament dissolved, Tory MPs were in a most obsequious mood, reciting the ‘strong and stable’ slogan that Theresa May started her campaign with, and even telling the Prime Minister that ‘I am confident that the country will be safe after the election under strong and stable leadership’ (sadly Peter Lilley, who made this prediction, stood down at the election and so is not in Parliament to offer his insight into how he feels about the state of the country now).
It will be interesting to see if anyone bothers to praise May at all in this session. It is far more likely that tribal types will want to take the fight to Labour, particularly when it comes to its position (a collection of different ideas which can only be described as a ‘position’ if you mean the sort of position adopted by a contortionist in a hall of mirrors).
Party leaders normally use PMQs to rally their party troops behind them.
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