Key pointsJeremy Corbyn was presented with an unexpected bonus in the shape of the chancellor’s confirmation, half an hour before PMQs began, of the government’s budget reversal on increased national insurance contributions for the self-employed. May said she didn’t usually heed lectures from Corbyn, but that when it came to chaos “he’d be the first person I’d turn to”. Corbyn then dropped his line of questioning to ask what May would do about companies who forced their workers into “bogus self-employment”. He had clearly prepared a set of questions about education and was not quick-witted enough to abandon them and instead devote all six questions to the NICs U-turn, as he should have done. Corbyn on the effect of government cuts and tax changesWe’re delivering, he’s just sitting there and going on protest marches.

Source: The Guardian March 15, 2017 12:55 UTC