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Jeremy Corbyn today exploded at 'unacceptable' Theresa May in a furious display at Prime Minister's Questions.

The Labour leader barely mentioned tonight's no confidence vote in her leadership - saying only it was "utterly irrelevant to the lives of people across our country".

Instead he blasted her "contempt" of MPs and the public in refusing to set a date for a vote on her Brexit deal.

Mr Corbyn demanded she guarantee a vote on the deal - which she is trying to renegotiate with the EU - in the next week.

But to roars of Tory supporters, a confident Mrs May - watched by her husband in the Commons - said the date "will be announced in the usual way".

She smirked: "We've had a meaningful vote. We had it in the referendum of 2016.

"If he wants a meaningful date I'll give him one - 29 March 2019!"

That prompted the Labour leader to explode with anger.

He roared that her behaviour was "totally absolutely unacceptable".

"Her behaviour today is just contemptuous of this Parliament and of this process," he said.

As the Prime Minister took to the despatch box her husband looked on from the gallery.

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Philip May sat with his arms folded watching his wife face one of the most gruelling PMQs of her career.

Mrs May opened with a joke about her leadership crisis, saying she would have meetings - "possibly many meetings" - with ministers, a riff on the usual opening at PMQs.

Tory benches were divided with half of MPs sitting in stony silence while the other half roared on with approval for the PM.

But Mrs May gave a surprisingly confident performance buoyed by the loudly supportive MPs on her own side.

She claimed Jeremy Corbyn "couldn't care less what I bring back from Brussels."

"He's been clear whatever comes back from Brussels he's going to vote against it," she said.

"All he wants to do is create chaos in our economy, damage, division in our society, and damage our economy.

"That's Labour, that's Corbyn."

She also mocked Labour frontbencher Barry Gardiner for, she claimed, muddling Labour's Brexit plan.

Mr Corbyn scowled as she said: "He sent out his henchman to reveal it all to the world - the inconstant Gardiner!"

But SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said: "This government is an embarrassment".

The Labour leader hit back: "The PM's appalling behaviour needs to be held to account by this house.

"The people of this country are more and more concerned about the ongoing chaos at the centre of her government."

He said it was clear "nothing has changed" - quoting the PM's worst moment of her election campaign last year.

He added: "The time for dithering and delay is over.

"There can be no more excuses, no more running away.

"Put it before parliament and let's have the vote."