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With Theresa May heading towards the exit door the last few PMQs have been understandably low key events.

Not today. This was a surprisingly sparky session which saw animated exchanges between Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May.

The Labour leader began with a perfectly weighted question: who does the Prime Minister think is right, he asked, Chancellor Philip Hammond who says a no deal will cost the economy £90billion or Boris Johnson who says fears about a no deal are confect hysteria?

Mrs May continued her habit of a lifetime by ignoring the question.

If Labour was worried about a no deal it should have voted for her deal, she replied.

Decades will pass and Mrs May will be watching daytime TV with Philip in their retirement home and she will still be telling people that everything would have been better if only MPs had backed her Brexit plans.

At no point will she ever acknowledge that her proposal was defeated three times in the Commons, clocking up the biggest Government defeat in Parliamentary history in the process.

The rest of Corbyn’s questions were aimed at the next Prime Minister rather than the current one as he went through the consequences for manufacturing, food and farming if there were a no deal.

Mrs May’s response was to claim that Labour, by voting down her precious deal, had therefore voted for a no deal.

The Labour leader eventually picked her up on this dissembling by reminding her that his party had voted against a no deal.

Intriguingly, in his last question he appeared to inch towards backing remain in a second referendum by saying decision should “go back to the people.”

Mrs May, who had earlier mangled her attack on Corbyn by accusing him of being “all mouth and trousers”, shot to life.

She listed all the contradictory positions on Brexit voiced by various Labour frontbenchers.

“Labour wants to block Brexit and that would be a betrayal of the many by the few,” she said.

You almost got the sense that, as the curtain starts to draw across the stage, the two leaders were beginning to enjoy debating with each other.

Score: Jeremy Corbyn 2 Theresa May 2