Watch: Dennis Skinner takes Cameron to task over Osborne’s ‘nine lives’

With George Osborne’s disastrous Budget the main topic of conversation today in the Chamber, Jeremy Corbyn surprised his colleagues by opting not to mention the Tories’ current inner-party turmoil — let alone Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation — in his speech. Instead it fell on his estranged comrades Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall to land some blows.

Happily Dennis Skinner also joined in — offering up one of his trademark one-liners. He asked David Cameron whether he would pledge to make this Budget Osborne’s last:

‘Will the Prime Minister give us an assurance that in the view of the financial mess that’s been created with this Budget that this will be the Chancellor of Exchequer’s last Budget? He’s had eight already, only cats have nine lives.’

Alas Cameron failed to give Skinner the answer he wanted, telling the Beast of Bolsover it was a ‘no’.