Labour MPs told BuzzFeed News of their disappointment on Wednesday after Jeremy Corbyn failed to "land a blow" against Theresa May at Prime Minister's Questions following her government's U-turn on a major Budget announcement.

In a letter sent to Conservative MPs this afternoon, the chancellor Philip Hammond announced that he would be scrapping a planned tax hike on self-employed people, a week after announcing it in the House of Commons.

The policy had been heavily criticised by the press and some backbench Tory MPs, but some were sceptical of the timing of the reversal – traditionally, the government avoids creating bad news for itself on the day of PMQs.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, however, confused some in the chamber by appearing to not actually ask Theresa May about it.