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Daily Mirror
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Kevin Maguire

Kevin Maguire: Jeremy Corbyn has a vision for the UK and Theresa May doesn't

The vision thing saw Jeremy Corbyn win Prime Minister's Questions easily - he has one and Theresa May doesn't.

Labour's leader was good without breaking a sweat, painting a grim picture of austerity Tory Britain in which people are dying earlier, inequality's entrenched, knife crime's rising and the old are abandoned without adequate social care.

Empty supermarket shelves display more personality than a May long past her sell-by date and her vacuous response will be noted by despairing Tory MPs as well as the wider country.

Brexit wasn't raised in the weekly House of Commons gladiatorial bout for the first time in perhaps longer than three years which is a sign MPs on both sides of the issue are as fed-up with it as the nation's sane majority.

PMQs: Theresa May's statistics attack on Corbyn backfires as she uses disputed claim herself  

And Corbyn's dissection of a woeful Tory record showed he retains the ability to cut through divisions to offer a compelling alternative.

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