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Those hoping the summer break will have breathed new life into our stale politics will have been disappointed by today’s exchanges.

You can hardly criticise Jeremy Corbyn for deciding to focus all six of his questions on Brexit given the importance of the issue, the divisions within the Conservative Party and the do not resuscitate notice attached to the Prime Minister’s Chequers plan.

The Labour leader asked more or less the right questions but they were delivered more in sorrow than anger and fell short, somehow, of a full-scale bombardment.

His attempt at humour, when he told the PM could no longer dance around the issue, was met with forced hilarity from loyal Labour backbenchers which was out of proportion to its comic value.

Theresa May responded in the dreary manner of Sunday school teacher reprimanding a desultory class on a particularly grim winter’s day.

She sidestepped Corbyn’s questions of whether Liam Fox was right to say there was now a 60-40 chance of a no deal and ignored completely his interrogation about Philip Hammond’s warning that a no deal would hit growth by 8%.

Mrs May’s responses appeared bland to the point of tedium until you realised they were not just vacuous but nonsensical.

At one point she claimed she was determined the country would make a success of leaving the EU regardless of the outcome of the negotiations.

This is plainly not true as the outcome of the negotiations will determine precisely whether this country thrives or not.

You also have to question whether he deflective tactic of challenging Corbyn to rule out a second referendum is effective when polls are showing growing support for that option.

Unable to address Mr Corbyn’s other questions on whether her Chequers plan would survive in face of the opposition from the Tory benches, she resorted to rehashing her speech made when she first entered Downing Street.

She was, she claimed, building an economy that works for everyone and creating a fairer country.

She then tacked on a clearly scripted attack on the Labour leader’s “shameful” stance on anti-semtism.

As this was her last question, Mr Corbyn was unable to point out her assessment of the country was somewhat divorced from the reality when households have suffered the longest wage squeeze since Napoleonic times and even the Archbishop of Canterbury was exercised by the growth in inequality.

You can understand why the PM tried to exploit Labour's difficulties on anti-semitism but the way she so obviously tried to shoe-horn the subject into the conversation looked like a low gambit by a desperate politician.

Score: Jeremy Corbyn 2 Theresa May 1