Jeremy Corbyn scored an own goal at PMQs that was so unlikely it was almost a masterpiece

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy In Jeremy Corbyn’s early PMQs days, he had a quite extraordinary talent of seeing an open goal before him and striking the ball spectacularly wide. This is the sort of thing that might compel an opposition leader to, for example, put out a statement last Sunday night saying he “would relish a head-to-head debate with Theresa May about her botched Brexit deal”. As we know, the purpose of Prime Minister’s Questions for Jeremy Corbyn is to shout some viral speeches for his social media following, but quite why whoever is directing those decided against even a fleeting reference to the collapse of the government at a time of national crisis is right up there with those mystifying moments of the Brexit saga. It is probably coincidental that that is the same number of bullets as a chamber in a revolver, but it lent the occasion a certain Pulp Fiction feel, as each one flew directly past Theresa May’s head from point blank range, leaving her entirely unscathed at this moment of maximum exposure.