Theresa May...

I tuned in to hear a few minutes of Prime Minister’s Questions, to see how Theresa May would perform. Jeremy Corbeyn’s first question was about a public enquiry into the events at Orgreave, during the miners’ strike, which had the effect of anchoring him in what now seems a very distant past (a distance only increased by the rush of bizarre events over the past month). Theresa May came over pretty well, I thought. “I hope we’ll be having these exchanges for many years to come,” she said to Corbeyn over the dispatch box. Who says she hasn’t got a sense of humour? Of course, having a pop at Jeremy Corbyn is like shooting fish in a barrel…