Watch: Angela Eagle teases Osborne for banishing Brexiteers from the frontbench

With David Cameron away, it fell on George Osborne to field questions from Labour’s Angela Eagle today for PMQs. While Osborne had plenty of gags up his sleeve, it was Eagle who managed to provide her party with the biggest laugh of the session.

Needling the Chancellor over the EU division in his party, Eagle pointed to the fact there was only one Brexiter present on the Conservative front bench:

‘Instead of providing the leadership the country needs, they’re fighting a bitter proxy war over the leadership of their own party. I notice that no Out-er… all the Brexiteers have been banished from the bench.’

After much heckling, it became apparent that one such Brexiteer had managed to get on the bench. Michael Gove smiled sheepishly as he perched at the end of the bench.

‘Well Mr Speaker, it’s nice to see the Justice Secretary here. I think the Chancellor’s put the rest of his Brexit colleagues in detention.