WATCH: Watson shouldn’t attack someone who is having chemotherapy, says Thornberry

“I have a Jewish member of stage who when she goes to family weddings can’t say who she works for.”

WATCH: “Anybody who outshines the Dear Leader risks being airbrushed out of history” – Lidington cautions Long-Bailey

He wonders why it is that Thornberry, his usual jousting partner, is not being allowed to stand in for Corbyn this week.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Long-Bailey seeks to make Lidington responsible for Trump

Corbyn’s new stand-in was strikingly self-possessed.

WATCH: May’s deputy rejects Thornberry’s attempt to draw a link between Brexit and ‘New IRA’ violence

“I don’t think those murderers in Derry were motivated by any thoughts about the border or about customs arrangements.”

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Lidington gives the impression that on Brexit the Government is becalmed

The Prime Minister’s deputy baffled inquiry with consummate professionalism.

Clark Vasey: Welcome to the Blue Collar Conservatism relaunch

Esther McVey with the support of MPs from across the party is refreshing and renewing the project.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: The odd couple, May and Corbyn, pretend nothing has changed

But their deputies look stricken, while the defectors are rejuvenated.

WATCH: “If they are worried about No Deal, they have to vote for a deal”, Lidington tells Labour

He teases Thornberry that perhaps when she voted for Article 50 to be triggered she was “present but not involved”.

Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Thornberry claims we are being swept over the Niagara Falls

But neither she nor Lidington sounded as if they expect Brexit to end in disaster.

Thornberry can’t “guarantee” her foreign policy won’t indulge human rights abusers when Corbyn does exactly that

The Shadow Foreign Secretary is making pledges her leader seems unlikely to honour.

Steven Edginton: The BBC’s Question Time last week. Abbott was the victim of her own rudeness – not of racism. As I saw at first-hand.

The only explanation I can find is that she mistakenly assumed I was just another Tory public school boy, to whom she did not need to bother giving the time of day.

Is the Marxist Shadow Chancellor really backing tax cuts for the rich?

The Budget has prompted further disarray in the Labour Party. But they do show a willingness to “compromise with the electorate”.

WATCH: Thornberry defends Labour’s six Brexit tests

Marr puts it to her that they’re designed to ensure that the Government fails them – and have no other purpose.

Nick Hargrave: Cameron’s modernisation was necessary then. And an updated version is necessary now.

When you’re worried about your child’s school, politicians look remote when they sound more interested in acronym bingo on whether we should look more like Canada or Norway.

Munira Mirza: Critiquing Islamist fundamentalist practice is not an ‘attack on Muslim women’

Johnson’s critics who accuse him of Islamophobia are either confused or disingenuous. Their tactics harm mainstream Muslims.