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You know it’s a PMQs disaster for Theresa May when Laura Kuenssberg praises Jeremy Corbyn

Emily Apple by Emily Apple
13 February 2019
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On 13 February, Jeremy Corbyn used his time at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) to grill Theresa May over her government’s disastrous Brexit ferry plan. Yes, the one where it awarded a multi-million-pound contract to Seaborne, a ferry company that didn’t have any ferries. The one that copied and pasted the terms and conditions on its website from a takeaway food company. And the one that ended up not even having a port to run said ferries before the government finally cancelled the contract.

It seems like Corbyn’s tactic worked. Because he even won over the BBC‘s political editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

Kuenssberg, not normally known as Corbyn’s greatest fan, tweeted:

Corbyn unusually using all questions so far on one specific issue – quite effective so far

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) February 13, 2019

Corbyn uses all six questions to go on ferry fiasco and go after Grayling’s scalp – May not budging but after rail problems , drones and ferries, it’s an easy target – Corbyn unusually focused on one specific issue to good effect

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) February 13, 2019

‘Keeping a straight face’

Corbyn slammed May and transport secretary Chris Grayling over the fiasco:

Jeremy Corbyn: "How on earth can the prime minister say she has confidence in the transport secretary?"

May defends Chris Grayling and says Corbyn prefers "playing politics to acting in the national interest" #PMQs https://t.co/Nx0Xs6D6lr pic.twitter.com/hhRdhzoFfx

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) February 13, 2019

And when May replied that “due diligence” had taken place when awarding the ferry contract, Corbyn expressed surprise that she could “keep a straight face”:

Jeremy Corbyn: "I'm really impressed that the prime minister can keep a straight face while she said due diligence was carried out"

PM Theresa May defends government handling of no-deal #Brexit ferry contracts#PMQs pic.twitter.com/3ouCNThbfQ

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) February 13, 2019

Because as journalist Alberto Nardelli pointed out, there was not “a formal assessment of Seaborne financial stability”:

May said in #PMQs that due diligence was carried out on Seaborne by Deloitte, Mott MacDonald and Slaughter & May.

Deloitte: “The standard tests could not be completed on Seaborne given a lack of existing financial information due to it only being incorporated in April 2017.” pic.twitter.com/3cWoJDmk1A

— Alberto Nardelli (@AlbertoNardelli) February 13, 2019

High praise indeed

Social media users were surprised that Kuenssberg praised Corbyn:

https://twitter.com/hall_down/status/1095664865505673217

Laura have you had a bump on the head? Whatever next you will be praising Corbyn.

— maggieann What's happened to Socialism? (@downbeat63) February 13, 2019

Although a few tweets later, Kuenssberg was back on form:

Wow… there is a lot of this about – people have been talking for many months about poss Labour breakaway – but ingredients for it are certainly there right now – whether it happens is a different Q https://t.co/HASU0ntULA

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) February 13, 2019

It should be satire

Perhaps it’s not surprising that Kuenssberg praised Corbyn. After all, even for the government’s most ardent supporters, it’s got to be pretty hard to defend the Seaborne scandal.

If nothing else, the fact that we have a government so incompetent that it’s happy to award a contract to a ferry company with no ferries and no ports should make two things abundantly clear. This is not a government that can be trusted to negotiate Brexit. And it’s certainly not a government that we can trust to run the country.

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