Brexit, Brexit, Brexit: leaders on autopilot for return of PMQs

Corbyn only had to repeat the same question over and over as May struggled to respond

No one can say that Theresa May doesn't go out of her way to make things easy for Jeremy Corbyn. There was a time in their early exchanges at prime minister's questions when the Labour leader frequently failed to follow his own line of thinking and managed to confuse himself as well as his opposite number. But after some coaching from May, whose inner hopelessness one cannot help but admire, Corbyn has learned he really only has to repeat the same one-line question over and over again. Brexit, Brexit, Brexit.

Neither May nor Corbyn looked exactly rested for their first PMQs of the new parliamentary session – the summer months haven't been kind to either of them – but the Labour leader is rather more convincing when operating on autopilot than the prime minister. He forced an eye open, asked which of her ministers she agreed with over Brexit, and sat down.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2CpaMfC