May off to a flyer, mocks Labour leader Corbyn
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CONSERVATIVE lawmakers cheered British Prime Minister Theresa May as she repeatedly mocked the opposition while dodging key questions on Brexit in a confident debut at parliamentary question time yesterday.
The weekly ritual of Prime Minister’s Questions is seen as a key leadership test and May, Britain’s second female prime minister — following the legacy of Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher — passed with ease.
May relentlessly mocked opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran socialist who is facing a leadership challenge backed by dozens of his own MPs, using his own questions against him.
“I am interested that he refers to the situation of some workers who might have some job insecurity and potentially unscrupulous bosses,” she told Corbyn.
“A boss who doesn’t listen to his workers? A boss who requires some of his workers to double their workload? And maybe even a boss who exploits the rules to further his own career. Remind him of anybody?”
Corbyn has been forced to give supporters multiple portfolios as he cannot find enough willing MPs to fill his shadow cabinet. May went on: “You refer to me as the second woman prime minister. In my years in the House I’ve long heard the Labour party asking what the Conservative Party does for women — well, (it) just keeps making us prime minister.”
She also told Tim Farron, leader of the Liberal Democrats, a minority partner in a coalition government with the Conservatives between 2010 and 2015: “My party’s a little bit bigger than his.”
May has been in government ever since Cameron won elections in 2010 and several commentators said her experience showed in a commanding performance. The Independent said May’s style was “eerily reminiscent” of Thatcher.
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