Cameron responded to questions surrounding the charter, saying: “Where we find a good Labour policy we implement it. Tonight we’re implementing what was Labour policy until week ago”.
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Mr Corbyn highlighted the case of a woman called Kelly, a single mother with a disabled child, who he said would be left £1,800 a year worse off by cuts to tax credits in April.
Mr Corbyn challenged: “Can you tell us how much worse off Kelly will be next year?”
Cameron insisted the “national living wage” would give people a £20-a-week pay rise, and Kelly would also benefit from a rise in the income tax threshold and more free childcare.
“The system of taking money away from people and giving it back to them in tax credits wasn’t working”.
HIS beard may be no match for that of Father Christmas, but lots of people are hoping to have new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn topping their Christmas tree this year.
He also appealed for an end to the punch and judy of PMQs, and for the famously raucous event to be handled in a more “adult” way. But the prime minister halted his reply after Labour MPs heckled him over the reforms.
And Corbyn himself wasn’t averse to the odd jibe in Cameron’s direction.
Mr Corbyn joked: “You’re doing your best and I admire that”.
The move has infuriated the parliamentary party since John McDonnell had previously said that he would vote for the fiscal charter and by opposing the draft legislation Labour risks damaging its economic credibility – an issue which dogged the party up to general election. He asked the out-of-touch Prime Minister if he really thought houses worth £450,000 could be considered “affordable”.
Cameron insisted this was the “upper limit” on what a starter home in London should cost.
“We want to see starter homes in London built for £150,000, at £200,000 so people … can stop renting and start buying”.
“I had a conversation with them, I relayed that to the Health Secretary, I am very happy to write to you about it, but making sure people get the right diagnosis, they get it quickly and then we use the information to tackle secondary breast cancer is absolutely crucial for our country”. “This might be amusing to a few members but it’s not amusing to Matthew or many others”, he said. He said she had written to him and he had chosen her question to read out as part of his “people’s question” time approach which involves more participation from the public.
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The new leader of the opposition used his second Prime Minister’s Questions appearance to claim that the the government was “limiting the life chances” of hundreds of thousands of children.
