Corbyn’s PMQs on buses result in combination of sarcasm and praise

The decision by the Labour Party leader to eschew questions about hot topics such as Brexit in favour of six queries about the Government’s policies regarding buses took the media very much by surprise. Rik Thomas reports

20 July 2018

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s decision to devote all of the questions he was permitted at a Prime Minister’s questions session of Parliament in early July was met with surprise by many but also approval, at least in the case of The Guardian

The decision by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to devote all six of his questions to Prime Minister Theresa May during the showpiece PMQs session of Parliament on 4 July to the subject of buses raised more than a few eyebrows amongst political journalists. The Guardian, for example, described Corbyn’s choice of subject matter as something “few people would have expected”, whilst The Daily Telegraph suggested that the Labour leader’s decision was...