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Jeremy Corbyn mounted a sustained attack on Theresa May's hated grammar schools plan, in what has been hailed his best performance at Prime Minister's Questions.

In a heated exchange, Mr Corbyn hit Mrs May with the words of John, a teacher, who wrote to him asking: "Why can’t they fund all schools properly and let us do our job?”

In Kent, which has grammar schools, just 27% of pupils on free school meals get five good GCSEs compared to 45% in London, he said.

“We’re all for expanding good practice but why does the Prime Minister want to expand a system that can only let children down,” he says.

Mrs May "gently reminded" Mr Corbyn that both he and she went to grammar schools: “It’s what got us where we are today. But my side might be rather happier about that than his.”

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Mr Corbyn went on: "The two things the Prime Minister and I have in common are we can both remember the 1950s, and we can both remember going to a grammar school.

"My point is simply this. Every child - EVERY child - should have the best possible education they can have. We don't need - and never should - divide children at the age of 11. A life changing division where the majority end up losing out."

She added: “It is the Labour party that has stifled opportunity, stifled ambition in this country.

“It is members of the Labour party who will take the advantages of good education for themselves and pull up the ladder behind them for other people.”

Mr Corbyn replied: “It’s not about pulling up ladders. It’s about providing a ladder for every child.”

And he quoted a major and vocal critic of grammar schools.

He said: "There is a kind of hopelessness about the demand to bring back grammars. An assumption that this country will only ever be able to offer a decent education to a select few.

"I want the Conservative party to rise above that attitude."

"Not my words," he noted, "but the words of the right honourable member for Witney" - David Cameron .

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His best performance ever?

Many - including his critics - have hailed today's PMQs as being among Mr Corbyn's best ever performances ever.

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...but will it be his last?

Despite being Mr Corbyn's most impressive appearance in the year he's been leader of the opposition, it's possible today's session could be his last.

Parliament rises for a three-week recess tomorrow and will not return until after Labour's leadership election.

But polls suggest a landslide win for Jeremy Corbyn over challenger Owen Smith .