PMQs verdict: Corbyn finally, but feebly, tackles May on Brexit

A more than usually noisy PMQs saw Jeremy Corbyn focus his questions on Brexit and the detail – or lack of it – of the government’s plan for it.

He started by saying David Davis promised in his Brexit speech on Tuesday that Britain would not turn into a “Mad Max-style dystopia”, before asking whether Theresa May couldn’t set the bar a bit higher than that? May says the only fiction around is from Labour, which cannot decide on its own Brexit policy.

Corbyn pressed on with the Davis speech – pointing out that the Brexit secretary said he did not want to deregulate. So why did his own department say there could be opportunities from deregulation on issues such as the environment? May rattles through a list of what she wants from Brexit but does not answer the question.

Corbyn said Boris Johnson briefed in December that the working-time directive would be scrapped. He added that May used to say she wanted tariff-free access to the EU. Now it is access “as tariff-free as possible”.

Source: theguardian