Backbenchers on both sides looked just as depressed as they had done at the end of last year. There again, they were right to
With much of the NHS in crisis, the Commons chose to express its solidarity by putting itself on life support. The arrival of both party leaders for the first prime minister’s questions of the new year was greeted in near silence by flatlining MPs. If the aim of the non-reshuffle reshuffle was to re-energise a failing government, it hasn’t worked. There was more interest in Justine Greening choosing to position herself next to Anna Soubry and Nicky Morgan in the remainer awkward squad than in the reappearance of so many familiar frontbench faces. Backbenchers on both sides looked just as depressed as they had done at the end of last year. There again, they were right to. The Chronicle of a Mediocrity Foretold.
After a pointless opening question from the Tory James Cleverly – “Oh thank you, thank you, for making me deputy party chairman. Would you like to say why you are the best prime minister ever?” – Jeremy Corbyn predictably homed in on the NHS. In the last PMQs before Christmas the prime minister had said the NHS was in better shape than ever when there were 12,000 left to fend for themselves in the back of ambulances: how did she feel now the figure had risen to 17,000?
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