Key points
After a morning in which two frontbenchers resigned in protest at his shadow cabinet reshuffle, it was never going to be an easy PMQs for the Labour leader. But Jeremy Corbyn stuck grimly to his guns, pressing the prime minister on flood defences. David Cameron pivoted swiftly back to the reshuffle.
Snap verdict
Not a decisive exchange, but a topical, serious one from which both Corbyn and Cameron emerged with some credit. Corbyn never really skewered Cameron over his flood spending failures, but his questions were solid, his tone was appropriate and he refused to be thrown by the jibes about the reshuffle. As usual, Cameron tried to steer it back to the economy and leadership, but he was also able to make some reasonable points about the government’s flood record.
Best lines
Cameron took advantage of the arrival of twelfth night to make a pro-forma Shakespearean joke about Love’s Labour’s Lost, but his barb about the length of the reshuffle was probably the most effective.
The idea that this individual would be faster in responding to floods when it takes him three days to carry out a reshuffle is laughable.
Neither Cameron nor Corbyn had vintage lines, though.
