Didn’t Jeremy Corbyn do well at PMQs? He asked the prime minister the same question six times over: “Can he guarantee that nobody will be worse off next year as a result of cuts to working tax credits?”

Viewers of television news, whether on the BBC, ITV or Sky, would have seen David Cameron looking increasingly irritated while failing to answer the question six times in succession.

Amid a barrage of noise in the Commons, he ducked and dived. No yes. No no. He just wouldn’t say one way or the other.

It was the first major PMQ strike by Corbyn, but what did Thursday’s national newspapers have to say about it? Precious little in most cases. And nothing at all in others.

The Guardian headlined the exchange between Corbyn and Cameron, PM ducks questions on tax credit changes, as did the politically neutral Metro: “Cameron asked 6 times to explain tax credit tweaks.”

Editors at the Daily Mail, Sun, Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Independent and i didn’t think the story merited a big show or, in most cases, any show at all.

Even the Labour-supporting Mirror failed to headline Corbyn’s Paxman-like moment, although I did find a good piece on its website, Cameron’s six dodges. (And a tweet from the Daily Record’s political editor shows that it gave the matter a good show).

In some cases, it was left to the parliamentary sketch-writers to reveal what happened. The Telegraph’s Michael Deacon detailed each one of the prime ministerial evasions, remarking sarcastically: “Perhaps the question was unfair.”

He though Corbyn had deployed “effective politics” and argued that “it doesn’t look great when a prime minister sidesteps a question six times in a row, turning an ever deeper hue while doing it” and adding: “By question six he’d gone the full Heinz cream of tomato.”

Deacon wrote: “Whatever else may be said about Mr Corbyn, his approach to PMQs is proving influential. On Tory MPs, anyway. They’ve started reading out questions from the public, just like him.”

In the Times, Patrick Kidd - who is proving to be a fine addition to the gallery scribes - led off with remarks about the frustrating wait by Lib Dem leader Tim Farron to ask a question. Then he wrote:

“Mr Farron also watched as Jeremy Corbyn asked the same question six times... And when David Cameron danced around the subJect, he asked it again. And again. And again. Mr Corbyn has got much better. He has reduced the phone-in requests, which now serve mainly to show up crass Tory backbenchers who yawn at voters called Karen, and is starting to land blows. He is helped by his party noisily getting behind him... George Osborne, a second Wellington with all the strategic nous of an old boot, has achieved a remarkable thing: he has united the Labour party behind a leader that few of them want. Or maybe this was his cunning plan to keep the liability in place. Mr Cameron survived. ‘We have a new alliance in British politics,’ he said, referring to Labour and the Lords. “The unelected and the unelectable.’”

It wasn’t much, but it was there. The Independent’s Donald MacIntyre also took his time to mention, almost en passant, “a successful PMQs for Jeremy Corbyn.” He wrote:

“The Labour leader deployed the simple but effective tactic - Paxman with Michael Howard-style - of asking David Cameron the same question six times to demonstrate the PM’s unwillingness to answer it. True, Cameron had a good sound-bite - that opposition to tax credit cuts was an ‘alliance between the unelected and the unelectable’. But this didn’t stop him getting redder and redder as Corbyn’s patiently exposed Cameron’s refusal to tell tax credit recipients if they would now be worse off next April.”

Incidentally, an Indy website commentary by Liam Young, The Corbyn quote at PMQs that silenced his critics once and for all, was spot on.

John Crace in the Guardian also preferred to highlight the failings of the leader of the house, Chris Grayling, before picking up on the Labour leader’s performance:

“When Jeremy Corbyn was first elected leader of the Labour party, Cameron looked as if he couldn’t quite believe his luck; prime minister’s questions was bound to be a doddle against the old Trot who was disliked by almost everyone on his own benches... If not yet exactly on the run, Dave is definitely now on the back foot at PMQs. Corbyn is proving unexpectedly steely, a politician aware of his own limitations and more than capable of playing to his strengths... For the first time, Corbyn stuck to the same topic for all six of his questions and Dave was left opening and closing his mouth like a demented goldfish that had only just realised it had no choice but to swim round and round in circles.”

Sadly, the Mail’s Quentin Letts confined his sketch to Farron. Did he not notice Cameron squirming as Corbyn plugged away at his tax credit question?

All in all, the national press response to Corbyn’s embarrassment of Cameron was further proof that the new Labour spin doctor, Seumas Milne, is going to have a hard job in the coming months.