In his much-anticipated appearance at the 30-minute
Prime Minister’s Question Hour (PMQ) held in the House of Commons on
Wednesday Sep 16,2015, the new Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, made his
mark by bringing style, substance, and restraint to what is usually a
rambunctious free-for-all in which questions and answers are frequently
drowned in boos, cheers and heckling from the benches.
Dressed
in a grey suit and tie, the former backbencher of Labour politics
opened by saying said that PMQ’s had to be more relevant. During his
campaign he had heard people say that PMQ time was “too theatrical”, and
that “the voices of people are not heard.”
e-mail to the public
Mr.
Corbyn therefore sent out an e-mail to ask the public what questions
they would like to put to the Prime Minister David Cameron — and was
inundated by a flood of 40,000 responses. Mr. Corbyn read out some of
these questions to the Prime Minister, the first two on the housing
shortage, and the next two on the dismal state of mental health
treatment in the National Health Service, an issue close to his heart.
Serious
questions got a serious answer from Mr. Cameron, who had come prepared.
What followed was an interesting, informed, and despite the deep
differences, civil exchange
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