PMQs - Snap verdict: Flash rhetoric and clever questions are fine at PMQs, but facts are better and today Corbyn demonstrated how nothing beats a good, old-fashioned, leak-inspired ambush.
His first two questions were a bit vague and waffly, he sought to lay a trap with his third, but then he surprise May with his leaked text allegations and then, to his credit, he kept pressing her for an answer as to whether Surrey was getting a special deal for the rest of her session.
It was a successful hit. May stonewalled his questions quite forcefully, but without being able to conceal the fact that she was not answering his key question.
Even without Corbyn’s Surrey deepthroat May’s answers would have been unsatisfactory - she has not got anything substantial to say about her long-term review of care, and her attack lines on Labour on health, about spending, read as if they’ve come from David Cameron’s pre-2015 PMQs file - but having a strong attack story to spring on MPs meant Corbyn easily had the upper hand.
PMQs - Snap verdict (Guardian - Live )PMQs - Snap verdict: Flash rhetoric and clever questions are fine at PMQs, but facts are better and today Corbyn demonstrated how nothing beats a good, old-fashioned, leak-inspired ambush. His first two questions