PMQs a sideshow after the Chilcot Report as power drains away from David Cameron
The tide has gone out on six years of his Premiership, but he still outsmarted the Labour leader
AS WESTMINSTER reeled from the stunning announcements unveiled in the long awaited Chilcot Report, PMQs certainly felt like a sideshow today.
The power has drained away from David Cameron, the buzz of anticipation ahead of his Commons appearances vanished.
The tide has gone out on six years of Premiership, and Mr Cameron slipped into the Commons almost unnoticed - where once there would have been roars of approval.
But on today of all days, what would Jeremy Corbyn lead on?
It was like Christmas for the veteran anti-war campaigner - everything he had warned about the disastrous invasion into Iraq had just been proven right.
A hush fell as Leader of the Opposition arose… only for him to open with a couple of jokes and a long winded question about the miners.
It was his big moment and Mr Corbyn treated the Commons to a chinwag about the Shirebrook Colliery, to his shame.
It was business as usual as soon as Mr Corbyn asked about job creation.
While the PM might be on the way out, he can still beat up Jezza with a well crafted line.
"The only area where the Honourable Gentleman has made a massive contribution to job creation, is in recent weeks he seems to have come up with a massive job creation scheme of his own," he said.
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"Almost everybody on the benches behind him has had an opportunity to serve on the frontbench.
"But rather like those old job creation schemes, it’s been a bit of a revolving door."
The PM added: “They get a job, sometimes only for a few hours before they go back to the backbenches, but it’s a job creation scheme none the less and we should thank him for that."
Just three of these bouts to go, and by 9 September we will have a new PM.
Will we have a new Leader of the Opposition by then too?
