Corbyn uses Boris Johnson's Brexit customs claims to attack PM
Jeremy Corbyn uses Boris Johnson's claims about the UK leaving the customs union to attack Theresa May over Brexit.
Wednesday 16 November 2016 16:08, UK
You won't have seen this on your TV, but Tim Farron, the snappy Lib Dem leader, spent most of PMQs bobbing up and down.
Bobbing desperately to catch the Speaker's eye, trying to ask a question (to no avail).
Theresa May, almost in bobbing rhyme to the dispatch box, was equally repetitive: "We have a plan … and we will get the best deal for Britain," she bellowed back at Jeremy Corbyn.
The Labour leader, after a very early excursion via the Chagos Islands, used all his questions to bang on about Brexit.
"Isn't the truth that the Government is making a total shambles of Brexit and nobody understands what her strategy actually is?"
Mr Corbyn's attack was all the more effective given the Foreign Secretary's off-message remarks to a Czech newspaper yesterday about us probably leaving the customs union.
But Mrs May was giving nothing away - Brexit does mean Brexit, and at the moment that is where it starts and ends.
The result? The Prime Minister on the defensive again, with no real answers, having to justify Boris. Never ideal.
And it's becoming a recurring weekly theme.
It is proving irritating not just to opposition MPs but clearly to many Conservatives too.
The normally loyal Tory Alberto Costa, son of Italian parents, asked the Prime Minister not to ask MPs to remove the rights of EU migrants.
A reminder of the complex political, cross-party challenges Brexit poses for this Government.
And that without the headache of Nigel Farage.
Is the man who has tried, unsuccessfully, seven times to become an MP about to become a peer? Lord Farage?
When Theresa May was asked yes or no, the reply: "All I can say to the honourable gentleman is such matters are never normally discussed in public."
Again it wasn't an answer, but we've come to expect from PMQs these days.
If only Tim Farron could ask a question.