Wednesday, July 20, 2016

THERESA MAY'S FIRST PMQs

The UK's new Prime Minister Theresa May has used her first Prime Minister's Questions session to attack her opposite number Jeremy Corbyn.
She pointed to Labour Party divisions under Mr Corbyn, who is embarking on a campaign to be re-elected leader having lost the support of a majority of his own MPs.
Mrs May also spoke of the need to strike a positive trade deal with the EU as Britain leaves the bloc.
UK correspondent Olly Barratt reports.
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PMQs remains one the key events in the parliamentary diary - a weekly chance for MPs, particularly opposition MPs, to grill the government…

This was Theresa May's first…

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn decided to use his questions to ask about workers, who are struggling.

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Conservative MPs jeered at the idea of Mr Corbyn worried about his future in work…

And Theresa May took her response exactly where they wanted her to.

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Outside the so-called Westminster bubble people may well be sceptical that job insecurity is a matter the Prime Minister should be joking about at PMQs…

But her MPs loved it.

Theresa May also used the session to talk about Brexit - confirming that whatever Brexit means, it does mean Brexit.

Whatever that means…

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PMQs has provided iconic moments in British politics… some leaders revel in it, others flounder…

It can sometimes have a feeling of groundhog day about it….

Listen to Tony Blair's first go in 1994 as then leader of the opposition… leading on Conservative Party divisions over Europe…

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Theresa May hopes she can be the Conservative Prime Minister who finally heals those divisions on the European issue while taking the UK out of the EU…

But don't be surprised if when we get to her final Prime Minister's Questions…she's still being asked about them.

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