PMQs verdict: May mimics Maggie – and surprises with jokes

The new PM clashes for first time with Labour leader at PMQs debating austerity, home ownership and Boris Johnson

Jeremy Corbyn quizzed May on her abandonment as home secretary of an inquiry into Orgreave, home ownership rates and the record of her new foreign secretary, Boris Johnson. In a memorable exchange on austerity, Corbyn asked if the long-term economic plan was dead and if there was a new one. May responded: “He calls it austerity, I call it living within our means.”

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A boss who doesn’t listen to his workers, a boss who workers to double their workload, a boss who exploits the rules?

Remind him of anybody?

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