The first question Corbyn read out was from a woman called Marie from Putney, who asked about housing.
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The Prime Minister received little challenge despite the new style of questioning and was able to answer back using well rehearsed arguments on how the party is the only one to deliver a strong economy.
Both of Bolton’s Labour MPs backed Leigh MP Andy Burnham for the party’s top job but David Crausby and Yasmin Qureshi were both left impressed by the new approach of the new leader.
It has dominated much of the British news agenda and pushed the 66-year-old’s plans and reported policy differences with his front bench over welfare cuts and Europe to the bottom of the agenda.
He also hit out at the suggestion that Mr Corbyn might wear a pacifist white poppy on Remembrance Sunday.
Corbyn is expected to receive a rapturous reception from trade union delegates in Brighton which will cap what he describes as his “extraordinary summer” that saw a quarter of a million supporters vote him Labour leader.
But in a repudiation of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and other past leaders who engineered the rightward shift, the party has now elected the most left-wing leader in its history.
Green also said the fact Corbyn did not sing the national anthem “will have offended and hurt people”.
“Not known for his oratory or debating skills, Corbyn faces a tough debut against Cameron, who has already debated against four different Labour leaders during 10 years” experience of PMQs, easily the most-watched weekly event in parliament.
But the Labour party office says it will not reveal what questions Mr Corbyn intends to ask before we hear them.
Speaking during Wales questions, parliamentary under secretary of state for Wales Alun Cairns said the Rugby World Cup “gives us a great opportunity to sing the Welsh national anthem and the United Kingdom national anthem together”.
Ahead of the event, Mr Corbyn highlighted that his mother had served as an air raid warden and his father in the Home Guard.
“I think he will do really well now he has the chance to shine and make that big divide vbetween the parties”. “Gross levels of poverty and inequality, that is what the Tories have in store for us”, he said in a speech interrupted by applause and rewarded with a standing ovation.
A Labour source added: “He stood in respectful silence during the anthem”.
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Mr Cameron usually spends Wednesday morning concocting a wounding joke about his opponent.
