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.

WATCH: “Get behind us…in the common interest, instead of carping from the sidelines”, Lidington tells Thornberry

“We have ended up with him proposing a dog’s Brexit,” the Shadow Foreign Secretary charges.

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: May and Corbyn remain unchallenged by their deputies

Thornberry gave no sign that she might be an improvement on the present Leader of the Opposition.

Labour’s red-on-red infighting over Brexit is intensifying

This week was meant to be all about Tory rebellions and blue-on-blue conflict. Instead, the Opposition’s civil war has intensified.

Daniel Hannan: For partisan advantage, Labour demands a worst-of-all-worlds Brexit

Leaving the Single Market while keeping the Customs Union would reduce the United Kingdom economy to the status of a bargaining chip for Brussels.

How Barnet was won

It wasn’t just about antisemitism. The Conservatives pledged to maintain weekly bin collections. Labour did not.

WATCH: Thornberry calls for Rudd’s resignation

“We think if you’re a politician in charge of a department, and a department does its job as badly as the Home Office has clearly been doing, you should resign.”